Drik

Many Faces of War 1971

Drik
cordially invites you to a
photography exhibition

at Suhrawardi Uddan, Dhaka (in front of Shikha Chironton)

on 26 March 2012 at 11:00 am.

The exhibition will remain open to the public till 31 March, 2012.

The exhibition is an outcome of “Archiving 1971” programme by Drik.

Photo: Don McCullin/Contact Press Images
Cholera outbreak after monsoons, war refugee camp, border of India and Bangladesh, August 1971.
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Photo: Mark Godfrey
A cholera victim at Krishnanagar hospital, India. June, 1971.
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Photo: Bruno Barbey/Magnum
A refugee makes a concrete sewerage pipe his home on the city outskirts. Calcutta, India. 1971.
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Photo: Aftab Ahmed/Drik/Majority World
Freedom Fighters return after a nine-month-long Liberation War. Dhaka. December 1971.
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Photo: Rashid Talukder/Drik/Majority World
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to his homeland on being released from the jail in Pakistan. January 10, 1972.

Introduction

Drik, Bangladesh is a distinctive multimedia organisation that has made challenging social inequality its central driving force. Over the last two decades Drik has successfully partnered with national and international organisations to conduct several successful socially responsible programs. Investigative reporting is an essential part of these programs. Credibility of information combined with powerful images presented in these projects have made it possible for Drik to bring out into the open opaque and delicate social issues for public debate and discussion. Thus, inherent in Drik’s work is this ability to use the power of the visual medium to educate, inform and draw ...
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Shahidul has managed to create a community… a truly concrete ensemble, which is a composite of all generations attached to their native soil, who share a much vaster territory than that of any one country.
Sebastião Salgado
Photographer

You’ve done an amazing job and the problem is that you keep getting better and better – particularly Pathshala. I am in photographic education. I genuinely believe that Pathshala is the best photographic institution in the world right now, and we all aspire to be that.
D.J. Clarke, Director of Visual Journalism, Asia Center for Journalism; Lecturer, University of Bolton.

It is a deeply ambitious organisation, aiming on the one hand to be a 'challenge to the CNNs of this world, and on the other hand to be a local force for change. … [Drik] remains unbridled in its politics – against all odds.
Antonia Carver in Drik Images for change in ART AsiaPacific (Issue: 35, July/August/September 2002)

Whats New

Many Faces of War 1971

Photography Exhibition Opening: 26 March 2012 at 11:00 am
VENUE: Suhrawardi Uddan, Dhaka (in front of Shikha Chironton)

Exhibition Dates: 26-31 March, 2012.
Archiving 1971
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