The Rose Class was a participatory photography project that ran during the summer of 1998 in Beldangi II Extension camp, which houses 10,000 Bhutanese refugees. The project worked with 13 Bhutanese refugee students, aged between 15 and 17, teaching them photography and providing them with a medium through which to document and write about their lives. The group called themselves the Rose Class because the beautiful rose was their favourite flower.

During the project, through photographs, writing and painting the group recorded day to day life in the camp and their hopes, fears and frustrations. The Rose Class became a platform from which the students could tell outsiders their stories and their dream that they might one day be able to return to Bhutan. The Rose Class put together an exhibition of their work in the refugee camp and this was followed by a collaborative exhibition with Street Vision in London. The students of the Rose Class have spent nearly half of their lives living in the camps. The Rose Class was organised by Photo Voice, a London-based group dedicated to raising awareness and providing means of creative empowerment to displaced persons around the world.