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1. With Photography as My Guide: After entering the world of photography quite by accident, a Bangladeshi visual journalist learned the techniques needed to make a living shooting portraits and accepting ad work. But it was as a protestor on the street, camera in hand, that the storyteller inside him began to surface

Author

Alam, Shahidul

Subjects
Literature/writing
Abstract

I first experienced racism while working as a laborer on a building site in St. Helens, a city near Liverpool in the UK. While we all worked together, in times [...]

Published
2013

2. The Majority World looks back: with the advent of the internet and digital photography it should be easier than ever for photographers from the Majority World to present their own reality in the global media. But old prejudices die hard. Shahidul Alam explains why and tells an inspiring tale of resistance and success

Author

Alam, Shahidul

Subjects
Developing countries in mass media -- Evaluation -- Equipment and supplies -- Social aspects -- Technology application -- Economic aspects, Mass media -- Evaluation -- Equipment and supplies -- Social aspects -- Technology application -- Economic aspects, Photography -- Social aspects -- Technology application -- Innovations -- Equipment and supplies -- Economic aspects, Developing countries -- Portrayals -- Social aspects -- Economic aspects -- Equipment and supplies -- Technology application, Photographers -- Practice -- Equipment and supplies -- Evaluation -- Social aspects -- Economic aspects -- Technology application, Communications industry -- Evaluation -- Equipment and supplies -- Social aspects -- Technology application -- Economic aspects, Social sciences, Technology application, Practice, Social aspects, Economic aspects, Evaluation, Innovations, Portrayals, Equipment and supplies
Abstract

It was a grand opening. The 'Who's Who' of development in Britain was there, championing the noble cause--the Millennium Development Goals, making poverty history. The Bob Geldof circus could perhaps [...]

Published
2007

4. Majority world: challenging the West's rhetoric of democracy

Author

Alam, Shahidul

Subjects
Developing countries -- Economic aspects, Developing countries -- Political aspects, Democracy -- Pakistan, Democracy -- Analysis, Poverty -- Pakistan, Poverty -- Economic aspects, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
Abstract

In this article the terms like third world or developing world or last developed countries that are used for countries that were colonized in the past and made to represent icons of poverty and exploitation is addressed. The troubled times in Pakistan especially the killing of Benazir Bhutto's father and other political turmoil is described.

Published
2008

5. Telling our own stories

Author

Alam, Shahidul

Subjects
Photographic industry -- Aims and objectives -- Collections and collecting, Social sciences
Abstract

Twenty-five years ago, the founders of Drik photo agency had a vision: 'to bring positive change through the professional and effective use of multimedia communication.' As they celebrate their quarter-century, [...]

Published
2014

7. A 40-Year Quest for Justice

Author

Alam, Shahidul

Subjects
Bangladeshi secession, 1971, Crimes against humanity -- History, Autonomy -- History, Political issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

DHAKA, Bangladesh FOR the past month, tens of thousands of Bangladeshis have filled Shahbagh Square here, demanding justice for crimes committed in 1971, when Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) attained its [...]

Published
2013

8. A death allowed

Author

Alam, Shahidul

Subjects
Dhaka, Bangladesh -- Political aspects, Police discretion -- Political aspects, Political violence -- Forecasts and trends, Press and politics -- Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Social sciences
Abstract

The fresh yellow tape saying 'Crime Scene, Do Not Cross' glistened in the Dhaka sun. It was the day after prominent secular blogger Avijit Roy was hacked to death after [...]

Published
2015

10. Southern exposure

Author

Alam, Shahidul

Subjects
Social sciences
Abstract

New Internationalist editor Dinyar Godrej's email asking us to participate in the 400th issue of the magazine a few months ago was a great opportunity. But with Dhaka in flames [...]

Published
2007

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