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While the following text is in German, the interview is in English.
Bangladesh: ?Vor allem unsere Politiker brauchen Bildung?
Shahidul Alam
F?r Shahidul Alam, Fotograf und Aktivist aus Bangladesh, ist Bildung viel mehr als Lesen und Schreiben. Im DW-Interview spricht er ?ber die Notwendigkeit eines weiter gefassten Bildungsbegriffs und der Abkehr von westlichen Denkmustern.
Shahidul Alam ist Gr?nder des Fotografischen Instituts Bangladesh ?Patshala? und Juror der diesj?hrigen Deutsche Welle Blogs Awards The BOBs. Er bedauert die Einschr?nkung, die der Bildungsbegriff durch die englische Kolonisierung seiner Heimat erfahren hat. Die heutige Schulbildung in Bangladesh setze eher auf mechanisches Wissen, sagt Alam. Dies sei aber nicht ausreichend: ?Bildung darf nicht nur auf Alphabetisierung zielen, sie muss auch Werte vermitteln?. Mit seiner Bildagentur Drik will er der westlichen Repr?sentation seines Landes eigene Sichtweisen entgegensetzen. H?ren Sie das englischsprachige Interview unserer Mitarbeiterin Debarati Guha:
Author: Shahidul Alam
Time Magazine Person of the Year 2018. A photographer, writer, curator and activist, Shahidul Alam obtained a PhD in chemistry before switching to photography. His seminal work “The Struggle for Democracy” contributed to the removal of General Ershad. Former president of the Bangladesh Photographic Society, Alam set up the Drik agency, Chobi Mela festival and Pathshala, South Asian Media Institute, considered one of the finest schools of photography in the world.
Shown in MOMA New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Royal Albert Hall and Tate Modern, Alam has been guest curator of Whitechapel Gallery, Winterthur Gallery and Musee de Quai Branly. His awards include Mother Jones, Shilpakala Award and Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dali International Festival of Photography.
Speaker at Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Oxford and Cambridge universities, TEDx, POPTech and National Geographic, Alam chaired the international jury of the prestigious World Press Photo contest. Honorary Fellow of Royal Photographic Society, Alam is visiting professor of Sunderland University in UK and advisory board member of National Geographic Society.
John Morris, the former picture editor of Life Magazine describes his book “My journey as a witness”, (listed in “Best Photo Books of 2011” by American Photo), as “The most important book ever written by a photographer.”
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