Resistance, the Struggle for Representation: Who Portrays Whom?
Department of Communication
School of Social Sciences,
Loyola Schools
Ateneo de Manila University
Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila
University (ACFJ)
invites you to
Resistance
The struggle for representation: who portrays whom?
A forum with
Shahidul Alam, PhD
Scientist, Photographer, Social Activist
Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 430pm
Social Sciences Audio-Visual Room
Dr Shahidul Alam will talk about how photographers in the South could
gainterritory in global media. Dr Alam obtained the PhD and taught
chemistry in London, started photography in 1980, and has since then
lectured and published widely on photography, new media and education.
His works have been shown in galleries such as the Museums of Modern Art
in New York, Oxford and Gunma, the Photographer's Gallery in London, the
George Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Arts in
Tehran. In 2000 he founded Chobi Mela, the first festival of photography
in Asia. Dr Alam has been jury member of numerous international
photographic competitions, including the World Press Photo and is an
honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He is based in Dhaka,
Bangladesh.
School of Social Sciences,
Loyola Schools
Ateneo de Manila University
Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila
University (ACFJ)
invites you to
Resistance
The struggle for representation: who portrays whom?
A forum with
Shahidul Alam, PhD
Scientist, Photographer, Social Activist
Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 430pm
Social Sciences Audio-Visual Room
Dr Shahidul Alam will talk about how photographers in the South could
gainterritory in global media. Dr Alam obtained the PhD and taught
chemistry in London, started photography in 1980, and has since then
lectured and published widely on photography, new media and education.
His works have been shown in galleries such as the Museums of Modern Art
in New York, Oxford and Gunma, the Photographer's Gallery in London, the
George Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Arts in
Tehran. In 2000 he founded Chobi Mela, the first festival of photography
in Asia. Dr Alam has been jury member of numerous international
photographic competitions, including the World Press Photo and is an
honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He is based in Dhaka,
Bangladesh.
