Noor Alam

Noor Alam is a freelance news and documentary photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was born in 1980, has finished his 3-year graduation program in photojournalism at PATHSHALA, South Asian Media Academy in 2008. Now work with The Guardian(UK), Majority World, ZUMA press International(US), Drik Picture Library(BD) as a contributor. He has also experienced working in the development sector INGO like UNICEF, UNDP, WFP, UK AID, US AID, BRAC, SWISS CONTACT, ACTION AID UK, GIZ.

Noor’s main interest in a social documentary focusing on health, education, cultural and environmental issues. Noor’s works have been published in many Bangladeshi national newspapers and magazines, i.e. The daily Star, the daily New Age, The Daily New Nation, The Daily Ittefaq, the daily Prothom Alo, the monthly Purple, the weekly Ekattor, tri-monthly Shilparup, and international publications including The Guardian(UK), Time Asia (Hong Kong), Himal Magazine (Nepal), TIF(Thalassaemia International Federation) Magazine(Cyprus), The Herald Newspaper, The Daily Record, Huffington Post, Himal Magazine (Nepal), TIF(Thalassaemia International Federation) Magazine(Cyprus). Zone zero, The Black Snapper.

Noor’s first solo exhibition Ballads of the Agonized Souls held at Zainul Gallery in May 2009, also a book with the same title launched, which depicts struggles of thalassemia patients of Bangladesh.His second solo exhibition Tears on Highway held at Chobir Haat in November 2012. Besides, his photos have been shown in several group exhibitions, namely Morten Krogvold Students’ Works in International Photography Festival Chobi Mela IV at National Art Gallery, Dhaka, Something About Reflections at Alliance Française de Dacca, Our Stories: Middle Class in Bangladesh at the Goethe-Institute Dhaka, Lungo Di Fume Padma Group Exhibition of Photography at Central Library Riva Del Garda-Italy, Border Of Loneliness Group Photography Exhibition on Rohingya Crisis at Iranian Photographers House, Tehran-IRAN.