Category Archives: Water

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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My Best Shot

by Shahidul Alam Posted on October 17, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Guardian 16th October 2011 Photographer Shahidul Alam’s best shot ‘The fisherman told me the river is a destructive animal. It had destroyed his home many times’ Interview by Sarah Phillips guardian.co.uk, Sunday 16 October 2011 22.29 BST Article … Continue reading →

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Picture Power

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 1, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews World Press Photo Enter Magazine The photographs here were chosen by Amirul Rajiv, who has been the photo editor of the Editorial & Forum Magazine of The Daily Star – Bangladesh’s largest English-language daily newspaper – for … Continue reading →

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Connectivity: The India-Bangladesh land bridge

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 6, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Himal Magazine February 2011 By Kanak Mani Dixit Can a formal bilateral communiqué be a ‘game changer’, foretell a ‘paradigm shift’, in a Southasian relationship? If India and Bangladesh manage to follow through on promises to open up their … 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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River and Life

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 13, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews They meander and glide. They unfurl with the rage of monsoon fury. Quietly they flow in the misty winter morn. Rivers thread the fabric of our land. Embroider patches of fertile delta. They are the nakshi kantha … Continue reading →

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Boxing Day Blues

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 28, 2006

When Jolly’s son Asif asked me to take a portrait of him and his new bride Rifat, I took it on with grandfatherly pride. The photo session was booked for Sunday morning, the 26th December 2004. Boxing day. The envelope … Continue reading →

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The First Element

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 10, 2003

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Poem on Waterwall at exhibition “The First Element” at the National Art Gallery Malaysia. Water Fluid, flowing, feeling, water Life, death, birth, union, water Meandering, shaping, eroding, changing, water Cosmos, clouds of gas, the ice age, frozen … Continue reading →

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