Tag Archives: Disaster

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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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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What Matters

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 28, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews The World’s Preeminent Photojournalists and Thinkers Depict Essential Issues of Our Time Sterling. 2008. 335p. ed. by David Elliot Cohen. photogs. index. ISBN 978-1-4027-5834-8. $27.95. POL SCI PHOTOGRAPHY EXPOSES TRUTHS, advances the public discourse, and demands action. … 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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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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