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https://www.linkedin.com/in/noor-alam-20a2ab6b/
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 experience working in development sector INGO like UNICEF,UNDP,WFP,UK AID,US AID,BRAC,SWISS CONTACT,ACTION AID UK,GIZ.
Noor’s main interest in 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 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).
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 thalassaemia 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.
Workshop
2003: Portrait Photography–by portrait photographer Nasir Ali Mamun, Bangladesh
2004: Composition & Visual Sensitivity -by fine art photographer Hasan
Shorufordin Chandan, Bangladesh
2005: Photography & Globalization-by documentary photographer Devid H Wells,USA
2006: Photography & Aesthetics-by fine art photographer Morten Krogvold,Norway
2006: Reportage-Joint Collaborative Program between Pathshala, Bangladesh & Oslo
University College, Oslo, Norway by Witold J Krassowsky, Poland
2009: Representing Establishment in Bangladesh– by Roman Bezjak, Germany
2011: Personal Story Telling–by documentary photographer Shourab Hura, India
Exhibitions
2003– Portrait Photography
Group Exhibition of Photography
Goethe Institute Dhaka
2006– Something About Reflections
Group Exhibition of Photography
Alliance Francaise
Dhaka,Bangladesh
2007–Group Exhibition Of Students
International Photography Festival Chobi Mela IV
National Art Gallery
Dhaka,Bangladesh
2009– Ballads of the Agonized Souls
1st Solo Photograpy Exhibition
Zainul Gallery
Dhaka,Bangladesh
2009–Our Stories: Middle Class in Bangladesh
Group Exhibition of Photography
Goethe-Institute
Dhaka,Bangladesh
2010-Challenges of Resettlement
Group Exhibition of Photography
On The International Conference On Resettlement
Dhaka Sheraton Hotel
Dhaka,Bangladesh
2011–4th show of Ballads of the Agonized Souls
14th International Thalassaemia Conference
WOW HOTE, Antalya, Turkey
2012–Tears on Highway
2nd Solo Photography Exhibition
Chobir Haat (A Open Gallery)
Dhaka,Bangladesh
2013– Lungo Di Fume Padma
Group Exhibition of Photography
Central Library Riva Del Garda, Italy
2017–Border Of Loneliness
Group Exhibition on Rohingya Crisis
Iranian Photogrphers House, Tehran