Shahidul Alam
Shahidul Alam
Photographer Shahidul Alam was a Time Magazine Person of the Year in 2018, and in that same year he was jailed for over 100 days for criticizing the Bangladesh government. A former President of the Bangladesh Photographic Society, Alam set-up Drik agency, Bangladesh Photographic Institute, Chobi Mela Festival, Majority World agency and Pathshala, the South Asian Media Institute which is considered one of the finest schools of photography in the world. Alam’s work has been featured at the MOMA New York, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris and Tate Modern London, and he was a guest speaker at Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Oxford and Cambridge Universities. His awards include the Shilpakala Padak, the highest national award given to Bangladeshi artists, as well as the Infinity and Lucie Foundation Awards. Alam’s book “My journey as a witness” was listed in “Best Photo Books of 2011” by American Photo and described by John Morris, the former picture editor of Life Magazine, as “The most important book ever written by a photographer.”