Drik Picture Library

Drik Picture Library Ltd [1]. is an award winning picture library set up by Bangladeshi writer and photographer Shahidul Alam and Bangladeshi writer and anthropologist Rahnuma Ahmed. The agency was set up in 1989 to provide a platform for local photographers in the majority world. The Sanskrit word Drik, refers to vision, inner vision and philosophy. Drik has gone on to provide media services which includes web development, video production, print production and exhibitions. In 1998 it set up Pathshala [2][3], The South Asian Institute of Photography and Chobi Mela [4] the festival of photography in Asia. Drik has used new media extensively in its activism and introduced email to Bangladesh in the early nineties. It also set up Banglarights [5], the Bangladesh Human Rights Network and DrikNews [6] an independent news photo agency that uses citizen journalism extensively. More recently, Drik set up Majority World [7] [8]an online portal set up to promote the work of marginalised photographers world wide and to promote Fair Trade Photography. It is headquartered in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, but also has branch offices in India and the UK.

References

• princeclausfund
• universes-in-universe
• imagesagainstwar
• newagebd
• apnic
• geocities Dhaka
• photography-now
• Young People at the Centre
• theiprn
• Creative Exchange

See also

• Shahidul Alam
• Majority World
• Pathshala

External links

• Drik Homepage
• Majority World Commercial Homepage
• Majority World Organization Homepage
• Drik News
• Bangladesh Human Rights Portal
• Chobi Mela - Festival of Photography
• Pathshala - Education Wing of Drik