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While two Bangladeshi women, Nishat Majumdar and Wasfia Nazreen reached the summit of Sagarmatha (Mount Everest), two Bangladeshi men Muntasir Mamun and Mohammad Ujjal?have been riding their tandem across North America. Follow them on their trip. Meanwhile Sarker Protick bags the Prix Mark Grosset and Abu Sufian collects the RSF blog award at the Global Media Forum. It’s time we celebrated.
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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Dear Nishat and Wasfia
Your achievement is a source of pride for all women!
Heartiest congratulations!
Nighat Mir
Karachi
Pakistan
Dear Nishat and Wasfia
Your achievement is a source of pride for all women!
Heartiest congratulations!
Nighat Mir
Karachi
Pakistan