‘Third ’ and ‘Developing ’ not our chosen identity: Interview with photojournalist Shahidul Alam
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Shahidul Alam at the PopTech 2011 conference (PopTech.jpg) / CC BY-SA 2.0) Noted Bangladeshi photojournalist, activist and writer Shahidul Alam started documenting the post-liberation political landscape of Bangladesh in the 1980s, only to find himself as an activist in a social justice movement that would eventually end the nine-year dictatorship of General Hussain Muhammad Ershad. Even without actively joining the political scene, he has built a media ecosystem that continually holds the polity accountable. Alam was arrested in August 2018 on charges of instigating “students to continue a mo…