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Debabrata Chowdhury (1952- ), LBPS is photographer of the Bangladesh Livestock
Research Institute in Savar and his photographs have been exhibited, published and
awarded at home and abroad (pl. 10.12, pl. 10.16). He has been associated with the
education wing of BPS ‘Bangladesh Photographic Institute’ in the photography
education program. In 1991 he visited various photography education institutions,
galleries, museums, societies and observed the overall education system in a tour
arranged by the British Council and submitted his report on a photography course
suitable for Bangladesh. Nafis Ahmed Nadvi (1958- ), LBPS, a graduate of fine art
evinces originality in his artistic language (fig. 10.27). He won the grand prize in the
second national photography competition organized by BPS. He was also involved in
the organizational aspect of the photography movement. In Enamul Karim Nirjhar’s
album Barnadhara, Enamul Karim Nirjharer Alokchitra Gatha (2001) he has
presented us with a picture of the hypocrisy and emptiness of our socio-political
economic life. Abdus Shahid (1949- ), LBPS has long been responsible as the training fig. 10.27 Photograph
assistant at the Begart Institute of Photography and Bangladesh Photographic Institute. Nafis Ahmed Nadvi,
He has also left his mark as an accomplished photographer (fig. 10.28). © Nafis Ahmed Nadvi
Rashid Un-Nabi (1965-), AFIAP
Dr. Rashid Un-Nabi Shubra is a leading photographer and organizer of Bangladesh.
This accomplished photographer artist has received almost fifty awards to date
including FIAP gold medal and PSA gold medal. He is the president of Aalok as well
as participating in various activities of BPS, CPS as an organizer. He creates a poetic
and aesthetic world in his photographs. Many everyday and ordinary subjects of the
surroundings become meaningful in his pictures (fig. 10.30).
Shahidul Alam (1955-), Hon. FBPS, Hon. FRPS 97
Shahidul Alam holds a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the Liverpool University of
the United Kingdom and is a self-taught photographer. He began as an amateur
photographer in 1981 and started to work as a professional in London in 1983. He
returned to Bangladesh in 1984 and became a member of BPS (he was the president
from 1989-1992) and became involved in the photographic movement. At present
Shahidul Alam is an international photographic organizer, specialist and speaker.
Shahidul Alam’s photographs and his various activities have stressed the socially
related aspects of awareness building on child labor, abuse of women, positive
consciousness towards AIDS victims. He has captivated the struggle for existence of
the common people, life endangered by natural calamities and the anti-autocracy
movement which continued throughout the eighties. He took great risks in 1990
during the mass movement and presented the stirring exhibition entitled ‘Struggle for
Democracy.’ He received the prestigious Mother Jones International Photography
Prize (1992) for his photographs of this mass uprisal. ‘The true picture of the country
is not being represented by the photographers of the west,’ [trans.] thus to present the
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actual picture he has formed Drik, Pathshala, Out of Focus, Anya Chokhey Dekha etc.
organizations. He was member of the jury of the World Press Photo competition in