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Philip Blenkinsop Lecture

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These week I attend Philip lecture, Philip Blenkinsop is a  renowned photographer and founding member of NOOR Photo Agency. Noor is an International Photo Agency which work worldwide. Noor’s Photographer share concerns, and accept the challenge of expressing these concerns in a language capable of renewing itself,respect the human dignity of their subjects. They are documentary photographers aware of the major changes facing traditional media in favor of an always-bigger diffusion of the new media said their manifesto.

 

Dhaka, October 2010. Philip delivered his valuable lecture at Drik. Copy Right:Monirul Alam

 

 

I like his  lecture and nice presentation- to learn more about latest concept of documentary photography.His thought about the photojournalism is really appreciative. To me I met Philipe he is a nice and friendly person. He came to Bangladesh, secound time for his own project.

 

I thanks to Pathshala Alumni to conduct  this lecture session specially thanks to Munem Wasif. He takes an good initiative to explore our photographic arena.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link Page NOOR:  http://www.noorimages.com/home/

 

Internal Migration

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Climate change touches already every corner of the world and every aspect of people’s lives. As the global temperature increases, its impacts will become even more extreme. The impact of climate change world is already facing food and fuel crises. World Bank and IMF have sounded a larger alarm push 100 million people in low-income countries deeper into poverty. Bangladeshi is a country that stands to be one of the first to suffer from global climate change, and the time to act is now.

 

Patukhali south part of Bangladesh, October 2010. Mujibor and Khaled stand on the launch deck who left their houses away to Dhaka city for searching job.Copy Right:Monirul Alam

 

The IPCC warns of devastating floods, drought, extreme weather, hunger, and disease across the world in decades to come.

Bangladesh faces all of that already, and climate change will accelerate it. Once a byword for backwardness, Bangladesh is now a glimpse of everyone’s future.


River Life

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Patuakhali,South Part of Bangladesh,October 2010. Fisher man catching fish the Padma river at night time. Hilsha fish is very much popular in Bangladesh and India. Copy Right:Monirul Alam

 

Vanishing Identity !

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Thus, indigenous peoples have become the most marginalized and vulnerable group in the country of Bangladesh in its thirty eight years of independence. There is no constitutional recognition of the indigenous peoples of Bangladesh the issue of the identity of the indigenous peoples of Bangladesh has led to much debate and controversy, and on occasions has brought indigenous leaders and government officials into sharp disagreement.

 

Dinajpure, Bangladesh November-2009. A KORA tribe older women named sajoti KORA - Copyright Monirul Alam

 

They are only referred to as “backward segments of the population”.

My project is a visual and narrative documentation of this Indigenous people express their daily life and their traditional and cultural condition in the society.

I am using photography not only as a means of evidence, but also a link for the imagination.

Tax Fair

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Dhaka September 2010.Income-tax fair first ever held in Bangladesh.Taxpayers crowd a one-stop shop at the Diploma Engineers' Auditorium in Dhaka. Copy Right:Monirul Alam

Book’s U Can Read

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To me its a beautiful concept, when I visit the gallery and to see the exhibition remember my childhood, I read  a holly Qoran using a  (Rahel a stand for the Qoran) bookstand.

Dhaka, Art Center September 2010. Book's U can read by Wakilur Rahman.Copy Right:Monirul Alam

In this series represent a visible sign of Islam. Wakil bhai’s other works is really thinkable and conceptual,I really appreciate his Art.

Hear i say one things as an photojournalist Art/Picture never make it, a truth Art it self born like new born babies.

Dhaka Art center organized a week long solo   Art exhibition title Book’s U Can Read by artist’s Germany residents  Wakilur Rahman.

Maternal Mortality

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Sylhet March 2010. A newborn baby is treated intensive Care Unit of the private maternity hospital in Sylhet city.In Bangladesh and across the world are success stories in the battle against maternal mortality. But as the U.N. hosts a September 2010 summit to review progress in easing the world's humanitarian crises, it faces a troubling reality: hundreds of thousands of pregnant women still die unnecessarily every year. Copy Right:Monirul Alam

People’s Struggle

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Sherajgonj August 2007. Flood victime in a remote village.©Monirul Alam

Climate change touches already every corner of the world and every aspect of people’s lives. As the global temperature increases, its impacts will become even more extreme. The impact of climate change world is already facing food and fuel crises. World Bank and IMF have sounded a larger alarm push 100 million people in low-income countries deeper into poverty. Bangladeshi is a country that stands to be one of the first to suffer from global climate change, and the time to act is now. Analysts say it could trigger a migration the size of which the world has never before seen. Some of the big questions remain unanswered. I began to document of marginal condition in my own country. Increasingly severe floods, cyclones and other climate-related changes have already forced the migration of many

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Bangladesh faces high earthquake risk!

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I don’t have any experience of earthquakes but on Friday night I really felt it a few seconds at the same time my 14-month babies and his mother felt the same jolted. She run from the bedroom with my kids. Old part of the Dhaka is the one of the risky area for earthquakes. . . .

According to the news paper three moderate earthquakes shook different parts of the country including capital Dhaka on Friday night, and Saturday  afternoon. When Muslims were to celebrating their greatest religious festivals Eid-ul-Fitr.

Old Dhaka, Shakharibazar August 2005. Old part of Dhaka is the one of the risky area for earthquakes.Copy Right: Monirul Alam

Panicked people especially in Old Dhaka and Mirpur areas came out of their homes after the quakes jolted their houses.

The first tremor was felt for few seconds at 10:42pm while the second one with the magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale also stay for a while and shooked the country at 11:24:17pm. and the A 5.2 magnitude aftershock shook different parts of the country Saturday afternoon.

Ramadan In the World

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Dhaka August 2010. Bangladeshi Muslim devotees wait for Iftar, the meal that breaks the day long fast during holy Ramadan. Every day more then thousand of Muslims attend at Baitul Mukarram mosque at Dhaka for Iftar party. The Islamic foundation organized this programmed during the Ramadan month . Copy Right:Moirul Alam