Photographs and text by Pablo Corral Vega Life is not life without poetry. I’m talking about the license we give the world to touch us, change us, wound us, carry us away, lift us up, drag us down, save us, … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews La Lettre features Majority World Probably because it was first invented in Europe and probably because it was, for a long time, a rich man’s club, photography has been predominately a western hemisphere preoccupation. For a very … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews PopTech 2011 Interview: Shahidul Alam on photography for change Lindsay Borthwick ( BIO / POSTS ) | Friday, October 21, 2011 UTC Shahidul Alam walked on stage on Thursday wearing a marigold-colored salwar kameez, a camera over his left shoulder, … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews MEDIA : Listen now (18 minutes) AVAILABILITY: Available to listen. Last broadcast yesterday, 22:32 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts). NEXT ON: Today, 03:32 on BBC World Service SYNOPSIS The best of the world’s arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews When the lions find their storytellers: A public talk by Dr Shahidul Alam October 4th, 6 p.m. National Geographic Store 83-97 Regent Street London Internationally renowned Bangladeshi photographer, writer, curator and teacher Dr Shahidul Alam, will lead … Continue reading
London, 16th March 2011. MAJORITY WORLD™, the socially responsible image agency, announces major expansion plan at “Responsible Business”, Business Design Centre, London, 17-18 March 2011 Inspiring images, responsibly sourced MAJORITY WORLD™ is a picture agency with a difference. It promotes … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Giedre Steikunaite A photograph’s story is not only the one told in the image. Who took a picture, and why, also matters. Now who takes pictures of the developing world, and why? “The vast majority of … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Preface by Christian Caujolle Expressions, hands, faces, presence and pain, tenderness and anxiety, light and encounters, questions and determination as well as a thousand other things run through Munem Wasif‘s photographs. The way Wasif takes his photographs can … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Lucia Chiriboga portrays the deep spirituality in Ecuadorian life. Long before Photoshop became commonplace, Lucia began creating complex images by subtle multiple exposures, as a way of weaving multilayered stories of her ancestors. ã Lucia Chiriboga/Drik/Majority World … Continue reading
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 and our own struggles to ensure some semblance of fairness … Continue reading
