A wonderful opportunity to get your portfolio reviewed by the World Press Photo Asia Jury 2023 on the occasion of the 24th-year anniversary program of Pathshala!
Don’t miss out – submit your best work before the deadline on Tuesday, 10 January 2023, at 13.00 CET (Netherlands time).
বাংলাদেশে শিকারি সাংবাদিকতার উত্থানপর্ব
বাংলাদেশে মতপ্রকাশ ও গণমাধ্যমের স্বাধীনতা নিয়ে দৃক পিকচার লাইব্রেরি একটি আলাপের আয়োজন করতে যাচ্ছে আজ বুধবার, ১৪ই ডিসেম্বর ২০২২, বিকেল সাড়ে ৫টায় ঢাকার পান্থপথস্থ দৃকপাঠ ভবনে। এই আলাপচারিতায় অংশগ্রহণ করবেন ইতিহাসবিদ ও গবেষক আফসান চৌধুরী এবং আলোকচিত্র সাংবাদিক ও দৃকের ব্যবস্থাপনা পরিচালক শহিদুল আলম।
Join our online expert talk on Wednesday 30 November for information and tips on preparing your entry with 2022 Contest Asia jury chair Tanzim Wahab, photographer Veejay Villafranca, and World Press Photo Contest director Anna Lena Mehr. They will run you through the 2023 Contest entry process, share insights on how to effectively submit your best work, and answer all your questions so you can be ready to enter the contest when it opens for entries on 1 December 2022.
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in partnership with Drik Picture Library presents 'Resilience - stories of women inspiring change'. This special exhibition showcases a selection of stories, awarded in the World Press Photo Contests from 2000 to 2021, that highlight the resilience and challenges of women, girls, and communities around the world.
World Press Photo Foundation's Executive Director Joumana El Zein Khoury explains the importance of visual literacy at a discussion held at DrikPath Bhaban today in the evening. Ms Khoury is visiting Bangladesh on the occasion of the global tour of the World Press Photo Exhibition 2022 in Bangladesh hosted at Drik Gallery, Dhaka.
Golam Kasem, nicknamed Daddy, died at the tender age of 104. The single storied yellow building at 73 Indira Road, with its unkempt garden, was home not only to Bangladesh’s oldest photographer, but also the first Bengali Muslim short story writer. It was in the foothills of the Himalayas that he was born. In a bullock cart amidst a snowstorm.
Drik Picture Library, in partnership with the World Press Photo Foundation, organised and inaugurated the World Press Photo Exhibition 2022 at Drik Gallery, Dhaka today at 4:30 pm. The Exhibition 2022, on its world-wide tour, showcases the photo stories from the 65th annual World Press Photo Contest.
Drik Picture Library Limited cordially invites you to the opening ceremony of the World Press Photo Exhibition 2022 at Drik Gallery on Friday, 4 November 2022 at 4:30 pm.
Drik Picture Library is pleased to invite you to the Discussion, ‘The importance of visual literacy in mainstream education’ by Joumana El Zein Khoury, Executive Director, World Press Photo Foundation
Drik Picture Library Limited cordially invites you to the opening ceremony of World Press Photo Exhibition 2022 at Drik Gallery on Friday, 4 November 2022 at 4:30 pm.
Drik Picture Library Limited cordially invites you to the opening ceremony of World Press Photo Exhibition 2022 at Drik Gallery on Friday, 4 November 2022 at 4:30 pm.
It would be disingenuous to deny the impact of photography in an image-saturated world. Autocrats, advertisers, religious zealots and activists, each with their own agenda compete for the narrative. The staged photograph, the photoshopped image, photographs manipulated in the darkroom, clever special effects, the fine art print and the conceptual image all clamour for attention.
To mark Drik’s 33rd founding anniversary, an exhibition titled "The Long Journey Home" was inaugurated at Drik gallery today at 6 pm in the evening. The exhibition celebrates the archival inclusion of Indian photographer Amiya Tarafdar’s photographs at Drik, which is chronicled through the photographer's meandering journey to Bangladesh during and after the liberation war.
As part of the ongoing M3: Man, Male and Masculinity Project, the Goethe-Institut Bangladesh together with the Drik Picture Library is organizing an exhibition titled “Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence”, curated by Vidisha Fadescha from August 19 to August 30 2022 from 3pm to 8pm at Level 2, Drik Gallery, DrikPath Bhobon.
Drik Picture Library in partnership with Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) Leadership Network and The Hunger Project Bangladesh call for a photography competition for Bangladeshi nationals and plan to host an exhibition.
Drik Picture Library has been chosen as the regional partner by the World Press Photo to co-organise contests in Asia. You will also be excited to know that Pathshala South Asian Media Institute will serve the educational programme for the World Press Photo.
Great leaders may or may not be born that way, but their skills and abilities certainly evolve and mature over time. That is why we established an Emerging Leader category for the TSEGL Prize.
The climate crisis, caused solely by human actions, threatens the future of humanity. 'A Better Tomorrow', an exhibition on climate change juxtaposes the crisis and lasting hope.
Mohammed Ali has been painting street-art professionally for the past 20 years travelling the globe with his art. He had been actively involved in the #freeshahidul campaign and created a stencil which still hangs in Coventry Road in Birmingham. UK.
Even in the age of fakenews, the press photograph remains the most trusted source of news, and the press photographer, the most threatened professional. In recent years Bangladeshi photographers have been celebrated across the globe, yet there is no formal recognition of their collective talent or the valuation of their contribution to the nation.