Join us for an online conversation with Shahidul Alam on Thursday 18 March at 2.30pm (GMT). The event will be chaired by Professor Arabella Plouviez, Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Creative Industries at the University of Sunderland.
For over four decades, Shahidul Alam has pursued a vision to change representation of the ‘Majority World’ and to exploit the power of photography to affect social, environmental and political change.
Shahidul’s work has been shown across the globe and he has won several international accolades. In 2018 he was the recipient of the Lucie Award and named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. In 2019 he received the ICP Infinity Special Achievement Award and he was the 2020 recipient of the CPJ International Press Freedom Award.
Alam’s book of ‘My Journey as a Witness’ was described as “The most important book ever written by a photographer” and his new book ‘The Tide Will Turn’ published by Steidl, with photographs by Alam and pioneering Bangladeshi photographers and text by Arundhati Roy and Alam is in the New York Time’s list of “Best Art Books of 2020”. Alam’s retrospective ‘Truth to Power’ is currently touring the US to critical acclaim.
Shahidul is a long-standing Visiting Professor of photography at the Northern Centre of Photography, University of Sunderland and a long-term collaborator of NEPN.
This event is programmed as part of SHIFTS, a new project for NEPN which will explore photographic practice in the context of global shifts and pressing issues affecting the making and dissemination of photography.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England and the University of Sunderland.