Shahidul Alam is an acclaimed photographer from Bangladesh who often worked with and for UNICEF during the 1990's.
"There is a wall in our flat with pictures of friends of ours who have disappeared or been killed,” said Mr. Alam, 64, who was visiting New York from Dhaka recently for the opening of “Truth to Power,” his first retrospective in the United States, at the Rubin Museum of Art, through May 4. “Every so often we add a picture.”
But how does a photographer portray people who have disappeared with hardly a trace? That question, which Mr. Alam addresses creatively in works in this show, ratcheted up to a frightening level last year, when he was arrested and jailed after criticizing the government’s violent response to student demonstrations. “I’ve been photographing the missing and now even the camera was missing,” he said."
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"There is a wall in our flat with pictures of friends of ours who have disappeared or been killed,” said Mr. Alam, 64, who was visiting New York from Dhaka recently for the opening of “Truth to Power,” his first retrospective in the United States, at the Rubin Museum of Art, through May 4. “Every so often we add a picture.”
But how does a photographer portray people who have disappeared with hardly a trace? That question, which Mr. Alam addresses creatively in works in this show, ratcheted up to a frightening level last year, when he was arrested and jailed after criticizing the government’s violent response to student demonstrations. “I’ve been photographing the missing and now even the camera was missing,” he said."
Read full article in the NY Times
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