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Story: Graphics of Deadliest Crash
Graphics of Deadliest Crash
Angry protesters took to the streets as the Dhaka stocks have crashed by a record 551 points marking a 6.71 percent decrease in late December 2010. The stocks began to plummet almost immediately after trading began in the morning and plummeted by almost 200 points within an hour. The general index ended at 7654 by the close of the session. Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Story: Graphics of Deadliest Crash
Graphics of Deadliest Crash
Inside of a share brokerage house at Mirpur in Dhaka. Though the share-market bounced back in its stable state again after its biggest crash in the history, fear still prevails in every investor. Dhaka, Bangladesh

Story: Graphics of Deadliest Crash
Graphics of Deadliest Crash
A special prayer and ?doa-e-yunus? is held in front the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) at Motijheel seeking divine blessings for the stabilization of ongoing state of the stock market. The small investors prayed for their survival as they have lost most of their investment in continuous plunge of the share prices. Dhaka, Bangladesh
Story: Graphics of Deadliest Crash
Graphics of Deadliest Crash
The Street in front of DSE during the investors? protest against the top bosses of the premier bourse and market regulators, and the central bank governor. The investors pelted law enforcers with brickbats, set fires and destroy cars and other vehicle they got near them in the street. Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Story: Graphics of Deadliest Crash
Graphics of Deadliest Crash
An investor who was arrested by the police during the angry investors? protest after DSE has its biggest crash. Dhaka, Bangladesh

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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