Inauguration of Chobi Mela Festival in Dhaka

Participants attended first day of Chobi Mela Festival, the international festival of photography and biggest photography event in Asia on February 3, 2017 in Dhaka. Two Bangladeshi photographers Nasir Ali Mamun and Saida Khanom received Lifetime Achievement Awards. Video Footage & Edit : Monirul Alam

Shopping Market Fire in Bangladesh . . . 

03 January 2016 Dhaka, BANGLADESH ~ Shopping Market Fire in Bangladesh. I was there to coverage at the capital of Gulshan One area DNCC Market has caught a fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 03 January 2017. Twenty-two fire fighters control the fire; the reason of the fire is not known yet. According to local reports, and witness said more than the fire has affected 600 shops but no casualties have yet been reported, the fire reportedly originated from a transformer blast on the south side of the market earliest on the same day. © Monirul Alam

Happy New Year 2017 . . . 

01 January 2017 Dhaka, BANGLADESH ~ Creativity is the exploitation of the resolution, I look back in my 2016 year and takes an advantage for renewal in 2017. Happy new year to all of you with peace and love. © Monirul Alam

Goodbye 2016 . . . 

Dhaka, BANGLADESH © Monirul Alam

Counter Terrorism Raid in Dhaka

24122016 ~ Members of the Bangladeshi Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) of an operation to flush out suspected Islamist extremists in a hideout in Dhaka on December 24, 2016, as a team from the counterterrorism unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police cordoned off a three-storey building in the capital. Two female militants along with two children surrendered to the cops, 1 female and a teen militant killed themselves during police raid by exploding suicidal vest outside their den while acting to surrender to the cops. © Monirul Alam

Police Raid Islamist Militant Hideout In Dhaka

December 24, 2016 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Police ambulance carry a suspected Islamist dead body to the Dhaka Medical Hospital after and operation to storm an alleged militant hideout in Dhaka on December 24, 2016, as a team from the counterterrorism unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police cordoned off a three-storey building in the capital. Two female militants along with two children surrendered to the cops, 1 female and a teen militant killed themselves during police raid by exploding suicidal vest outside their den while acting to surrender to the cops. © Monirul Alam
December 24, 2016 Dhaka, Bangladesh ~Police ambulance carry a suspected Islamist dead body to the Dhaka Medical Hospital after and operation to storm an alleged militant hideout in Dhaka on December 24, 2016, as a team from the counterterrorism unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police cordoned off a three-storey building in the capital. Two female militants along with two children surrendered to the cops, 1 female and a teen militant killed themselves during police raid by exploding suicidal vest outside their den while acting to surrender to the cops. © Monirul Alam

GFMD Summit in Bangladesh . . .

Publication on GFMD 9th Summit in Bangladesh, December, 2016 © Monirul Alam

 GFMD Sammit in Bangladesh 

GFMD Summit in Bangladesh ~ Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the conference and urged the global community to focus on the migrant and refugee crisis across the world on 10 December 2016, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The 9th annual meeting of the Global Forum on Migration and Development, GFMD, Dhaka representatives from 125 countries and over 30 UN agencies, international organisations, global civil society and business are participating in the three-day GFMD Summit. © Monirul Alam

Single Click of the Shutter . . . 

© Monirul Alam

29 November 2016 Dhaka, Bangladesh ~ Megh and his mother sit on the studio for taking passport photo at the Picture Center Studio in the Banani Super Market, Dhaka. Studio photo business is still now in populer, everywhere in Bangladesh and abroad, especially in passport photo for various preposes.Here one think I remember to read a beautiful words,Stopping time with a single click of the shutter. Yes, it is really a good experiences to a signal click of shutter ! and use for various preposes ! Love the life with fun. © Monirul Alam

An Epic Photojournalistic Journey . . . 


The object of my work is to report the real moment of life. I recorded many times as an eyewitness. My main interest lies in documentary storytelling focusing on global issues . . .

Bangladesh based artist, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker currently works documenting social issue. His photographs have been widely published national and international media around the world. He lives in Dhaka with his beautiful family. He loves photography & teaching with creative way . . .

-Monirul Alam
https://monirulalam.net/portfolio/