Tag 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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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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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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Salt Water Tears

by Shahidul Alam Posted on April 23, 2010

photography by Munem Wasif text by Francis Hodgson plus an exclusive audio interview about this project, plus another short interviewabout his evolving style as a photographer. Every ecosystem has its fragile balance. That much we have already learnt. Scientists routinely now seek … 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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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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Brahmaputra Diary

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 7, 2003

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Multimedia version with video and photographs A gentle trickle A surging river A gentle plain A delta Four long years Three thousand kilometres Cormorants, sea gulls Sparrows at dusk A flurry of wings Moody clouds La brume … Continue reading →

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