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    Shahidul Alam: The Tide Will Turn

    Published by Steidl.
    Edited by Vijay Prashad. skrivelse by Shahidul Alam, Arundhati Roy.

    A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2020

    “On the night of 5 August, I did not know if inom was going to live or die,” writes Shahidul Alam (born 1955), one of Bangladesh’s most respected photojournalists, essayists and social activists, remembering his fängelse, torture and eventual 101-day incarceration in Keraniganj Jail in 2018. Just a few hours before, he had given a television interview criticizing the government’s brutal papper of the student protests of that year which had called for an end to social injustice—in his words, “the years of vanstyre, the corruption, the wanton killing, the wealth amassed by the ruling coterie.”

    Combining Alam’s photos and texts with those of collaborators, including artwork by Sofia Karim and fellow inmates, The Tide Will Turn documents his exp

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    Shahidul Alam is a photographer, journalist, teacher, curator and human rights activist from Dhaka in Bangladesh, with a successful career in photojournalism spanning almost 40 years. Shahidul is a name that he chose for himself at the age of 7, which translates to ‘Witness of the world’ - a name only appropriate for someone who has captured the many social changes the world has experienced through the lens of his camera.

    Born into a family of academics, with his father being a microbiologist and his mother being a school teacher, he finished his PhD in Chemistry from the London University, where he also briefly got involved with the Socialist Worker’s Party and was introduced to social activism. With a newly discovered career interest in photography, he returned to Dhaka in 1984, where he documented the protests against General Hussain Muhammad Ershad. Since then, he has been an advocate for free speech and h

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    Shahidul Alam

    Bangladeshi photojournalist

    For other people with similar names, see Shahidul Alam (disambiguation).

    Shahidul Alam (born 1955) is a Bangladeshi media institution builder, a photojournalist, public speaker, storyteller, writer, blogger, curator, and educationist.

    Alam founded Drik Picture Library in 1989, Pathshala in 1998, the Chobi Mela International Photography Festival in 1999, and Majority World in 2004.[1] Drik's work as an internet provider introduced email to Bangladesh in the early 1990s. Drik developed a Bangla font for the internet, Bangladesh's first webzine and first portal.

    Alam's books include Nature's Fury (2007) and My Journey as a Witness (2011). A photographer for over forty years, his work has been featured in publications worldwide and exhibited in MOMA, Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the Royal Albert Hall, and Kuala Lumpur National Art Gallery. He was the first Asian Chair of the Internatio