Workers make clay pots as a form of pottery business to sell at a market in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh. The workers collect clay from the ground before shaping it with their hands, drying it in the sun, firing into the kilns and finally painting the finished pottery. Like many other trade of traditional handicrafts, pottery is also facing near extinction in Bangladesh. A profession mainly belonging to the people of Hindu potter community, artisans of this trade are changing their means of livelihood. The reason behind leaving the pottery trade is many: high cost of materials, the ever losing race against plastic and aluminum wares, low price and many more. Bangladesh.