Born in 1955 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Shahidul Alam is a photographer, writer, curator and social activist. He discovered photography wile completing his Ph.D. in chemistry at London University. Returning to his hometown in 1984, he documented Bangladesh's struggle for democracy, which culminated in the ousting of General Ershad in 1990. A former president of the Bangladesh Photographic society, Alam set up the award winning Dirk agency, the Bangladesh Photographic Institute, and Pataskala, the south Asian Media Academy, considered to day one of the world's finest photography schools...........