Category Archives: disasters

Win for Jashim Salam

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 28, 2012

Jashim Salam wins Honourable Mention at FCCT Photo Contest: Jashim Salam is a Chittagong, Bangladesh-based photographer working for DrikNEWS, an international news photo agency, since 2008. He is also studying photojournalism in The South Asian Media Academy and Institute of … Continue reading →

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Birth Pangs of a Nation

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 11, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews The book and the film celebrate 40 years of Bangladesh’s turbulent history. Through images by the finest photojournalists in the world and personal interviews of photographers, freedom fighters, refugees and care givers, they map the birth of … Continue reading →

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Aid and influence

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 4, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Surge in Global Migration Expands Scale of an Aid Group’s Influence Words By Jason DeParle Photographs by Shahidul Alam Published: New York Times August 30, 2011 DHAKA, Bangladesh — As global migration has rapidly expanded, so has … Continue reading →

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ConocoPhillips Oil Spill

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 16, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews As government faces increasing criticism over its controversial deal with ConnocoPhillips and pressure mounts to force the government to reveal the contract, an oil spill in China lends weight to the protesters claims that the company has … Continue reading →

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A Critic at Large – Alms Dealers: Can you provide humanitarian aid without facilitating conflicts?

by Sadia Posted on June 18, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews by Philip Gourevitch October 11, 2010 London, 1969: The worldwide reaction to the Biafran war gave rise to the modern humanitarian-aid industry. In Biafra in 1968, a generation of children was starving to death. This was a … Continue reading →

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Politics of Cultural Industries in the neo-Liberal Jomana…

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 21, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews by rahnuma ahmed A vicious cyclone had struck the night before. Dawn, stillness. A calm and eerie light. I tagged behind my older brothers as they ventured out, gazing in awe at a neighbouring house, its roof … Continue reading →

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Pakistan Flood Appeal

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 20, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews The floods raging through Pakistan at the moment have affected more people than the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, the 2006 Asian tsunami, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined. An urgent mail from Kanak Mani Dixit of Himal Magazine. … Continue reading →

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Death Traps: Tales of a Mega Community

by Shahidul Alam Posted on June 8, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Abir Abdullah Vice Principal Pathshala (Abir was a student of the first batch of students of Pathshala) A fire broke out on 03 june 2010 night at about 9pm after the electrical transformer at Nawab Katra … Continue reading →

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Just Hand Me A Biri

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 17, 2007

Orphaned girl by the remains of what was her home. Anwara. Bangladesh. 1991. © Shahidul Alam/Drik/Majority World “The dark cyclone shelter was packed with people, mostly women and children, some crying, some screaming. It was chaos. And then there was … Continue reading →

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When the Waters Came

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 15, 2007

It was nearly twenty years ago when I had written this. After one of my first photojournalistic assignments: What does one photograph to depict a flood? A submerged house, a boat on a highway, people wading in water? As we … Continue reading →

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