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Drik news release on gallery reopening
News - South Asia
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
The following is a news release put out by the Drik Picture Gallery following the decision to allow the Crossfire photojournalism exhibition to reopen.
GOVERNMENT CONFIRMS WITHDRAWAL OF POLICE FROM DRIK’S EXHIBITION ON ‘CROSSFIRE’
31 March 2010
Government lawyers confirmed to the Vacation Bench of the High Court today that the police deployed in front of the DRIK Gallery had been withdrawn and that there would be no obstruction to the exhibition from now on.
Dr. Alam’s lawyer submitted that police had continued to block visitors even uptil 4.30pm on 30 March and sought an assurance from the Government that there would be no further interference with visitors attending the Gallery.
Additional Attorney General MK Rahman referred to information received from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner and the Ministry of Home Affairs, that there was no need for a police presence.
In view of these statement, the Court observed that it would not pass any order at this time but that if further obstruction to the exhibition took place before the re-opening of the High Court on 3rd April, the petitioner would be at liberty to seek necessary orders from the Vacation Bench.
Background:
The Vacation Bench of the High Court for the second day heard a writ petition challenging the continuing police action preventing the entry of viewers to the exhibition by Dr. Shahidul Alam at the DRIK Gallery entitled ‘Cross-fire”, which consists of interpretive photographs and an interactive google map which shows locations where the bodies of persons allegedly killed in ‘cross-fire’ by security forces were reportedly found.
Dr. Alam challenged the actions of the police, including Special Branch and RAB in directing him to close down the exhibition hours prior to its scheduled inauguration on 22nd March, and then the continuing police deployment in front of the DRIK Gallery in Dhanmondi from the afternoon of 22nd March onwards. As widely reported in the media, the police had prevented noted author Mahasweta Devi and other invited guests from entering the exhibition for the inauguration, and subsequently prevented other visitors to the exhibition from entering the premises. The police stated that DRIK needed ‘prior permission’ to hold the exhibition and that going ahead with it would ‘cause unrest’.
The writ was filed by Dr. Shahidul Alam, photojournalist and MD of DRIK. The respondents to the writ petition were the Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, the IG of Police, the DG of RAB, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner and the Officer in Charge of Dhanmondi Police Station.
For further information, please contact:
Fariha Karim: +8801745770851, farihakarim (at) hotmail (dot) com
mercredi 31 mars 2010
mardi 30 mars 2010
Menace de mort contre le photojournaliste bangladais Shahidul Alam
Merci de lire ce qui suit, preuve que la liberté de la presse et la liberté d'expression sont au quotidien menacées. L'organisation Reporters sans frontières est là pour nous le rappeler. Soutenez en particulier l'action de RSF c'est aussi un moyen d'apporter un soutien aux journalistes menacés comme Shahidul Alam aujourd'hui à l'autre bout du monde par des moyens appropriés.
La liberté de la presse et la liberté d'expression sont des droits inaliénables. Veillons à ce qu'ils ne soient pas bafoués.
DB
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An Installation by Shahidul Alam on Extra Judicial Killings
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) was set up on 26th March 2004 to curb corruption in Bangladesh. It consists of members of Bangladesh Police, Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Air Force. RAB has increasingly been criticized for the extra judicial killings and torture that have taken place of people in custody. Human Rights groups maintain that over 1000 people have been killed by RAB since its inception. All such deaths have been attributed to gunfights between RAB and criminals where the people in RAB custody were caught in crossfire. No member of RAB has yet been killed in crossfire. Recently a high court bench passed a suo moto ruling, asking the secretary of the ministry of home affairs and RAB to explain a particular killing. The Chief Justice dissolved the bench immediately before the date for hearing (9 January 2010) of the government response – apparently for some administrative reasons. “Crossfire” is an exhibition of photographs where Bangladesh’s leading photographer Shahidul Alam, takes an allegorical look at the phenomenon. The constructed images use elements of real case studies to evoke stories that the government has denied.
Read and see more at: http://www.shahidulnews.com/crossfire/
Voici l'email que Drik India a envoyé à ses contacts:
Drik Gallery managing director, Shahidul Alam, on Monday filed a general diary with the Dhanmondi police station, following a death threat by an unidentified person. Quoting the complainant, assistant sub-inspector Joynal Abedin of the Dhanmondi police station told New Age, ‘An unidentified young man stormed into the Drik Gallery on March 27 (Saturday) morning and rudely asked the security guard about Shahidul Alam.’ ‘But when the security guard inquired about the identity of the man, the young man refused to give his identity and told the guard that Alam would meet his death in the street.’ A Drik Gallery source said, ‘After the closure of the exhibition “Crossfire”, an unknown young man came to the gallery premises in the morning of March 27 and asked the guard to tell Shahidul Alam that he would meet his death in the street.’ The general diary is numbered 1542/29th March 2010. Earlier on the day, Drik Picture Library Ltd filed a writ petition (No 2543/29th March 2010) against the government decision stopping the exhibition titled ‘Crossfire’.
Courtesy : Newage The Daily News Paper, Dhaka 30 March 2010
This is to note that Mahasweta Devi the legendary activist and author of India along with Drik India members went to Dhaka to open the exhibition “Crossfire” by Shahidul Alam which was scheduled to be opened on 22 March, 2010. The state machinery cordoned Drik gallery and did not allow her to see the exhibition. The exhibition and installation, ‘Crossfire’, featuring photos evocative of the sites where the paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion killed citizens under suspicious circumstances, was closed eight days ago by the government. RAB , the paramilitary forces have been implicated in numerous extrajudicial killings.
More in the blogs :
New York Times preview
http://bxpnyc.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/in-person-death-threat-in-dhaka/
http://www.mediahelpingmedia.org/content/view/570/2/
La liberté de la presse et la liberté d'expression sont des droits inaliénables. Veillons à ce qu'ils ne soient pas bafoués.
DB
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An Installation by Shahidul Alam on Extra Judicial Killings
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) was set up on 26th March 2004 to curb corruption in Bangladesh. It consists of members of Bangladesh Police, Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Air Force. RAB has increasingly been criticized for the extra judicial killings and torture that have taken place of people in custody. Human Rights groups maintain that over 1000 people have been killed by RAB since its inception. All such deaths have been attributed to gunfights between RAB and criminals where the people in RAB custody were caught in crossfire. No member of RAB has yet been killed in crossfire. Recently a high court bench passed a suo moto ruling, asking the secretary of the ministry of home affairs and RAB to explain a particular killing. The Chief Justice dissolved the bench immediately before the date for hearing (9 January 2010) of the government response – apparently for some administrative reasons. “Crossfire” is an exhibition of photographs where Bangladesh’s leading photographer Shahidul Alam, takes an allegorical look at the phenomenon. The constructed images use elements of real case studies to evoke stories that the government has denied.
Read and see more at: http://www.shahidulnews.com/crossfire/
Voici l'email que Drik India a envoyé à ses contacts:
Drik Gallery managing director, Shahidul Alam, on Monday filed a general diary with the Dhanmondi police station, following a death threat by an unidentified person. Quoting the complainant, assistant sub-inspector Joynal Abedin of the Dhanmondi police station told New Age, ‘An unidentified young man stormed into the Drik Gallery on March 27 (Saturday) morning and rudely asked the security guard about Shahidul Alam.’ ‘But when the security guard inquired about the identity of the man, the young man refused to give his identity and told the guard that Alam would meet his death in the street.’ A Drik Gallery source said, ‘After the closure of the exhibition “Crossfire”, an unknown young man came to the gallery premises in the morning of March 27 and asked the guard to tell Shahidul Alam that he would meet his death in the street.’ The general diary is numbered 1542/29th March 2010. Earlier on the day, Drik Picture Library Ltd filed a writ petition (No 2543/29th March 2010) against the government decision stopping the exhibition titled ‘Crossfire’.
Courtesy : Newage The Daily News Paper, Dhaka 30 March 2010
This is to note that Mahasweta Devi the legendary activist and author of India along with Drik India members went to Dhaka to open the exhibition “Crossfire” by Shahidul Alam which was scheduled to be opened on 22 March, 2010. The state machinery cordoned Drik gallery and did not allow her to see the exhibition. The exhibition and installation, ‘Crossfire’, featuring photos evocative of the sites where the paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion killed citizens under suspicious circumstances, was closed eight days ago by the government. RAB , the paramilitary forces have been implicated in numerous extrajudicial killings.
More in the blogs :
New York Times preview
http://bxpnyc.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/in-person-death-threat-in-dhaka/
http://www.mediahelpingmedia.org/content/view/570/2/
jeudi 18 mars 2010
"Non assistance à..." par Diane Grimonet
© Diane Grimonet / Polka magazine.“Moustache”, au risque de faire de la prison, accueille chez lui un Afghan, de passage en France. Il espère terminer en Grande Bretagne son long périple dans la clandestinité. Calais, France, 2009.
Diane est une femme rare et précieuse. Sincère dans son combat, elle l'est dans sa fragilité aussi. C'est ce qui fait sa force. Cela fait plus de dix ans qu'elle suit le quotidien précaire des laissés pour compte de la société en France.
Sans effets ni voyeurisme, Diane photographie. Jour après jour. Elle ne lâche pas. Elle est tenace dans son engagement, dans son empathie pour ceux dont elle se fait le témoin, la porte-parole. Le ton de son travail et son regard de photographe, simples, sont justes. Elle nous donne à voir la misère droit dans les yeux. Sa photographie utilisée comme un témoignage, une preuve par l'image de la détresse, de la "non assistance à...". Souvent, elle avoue simplement: "Je n'en peux plus". Et pourtant, elle continue, sans relâche.
Son exposition est à ne pas manquer.
Exposition rétrospective à la Galerie Fait & Cause, à Paris du 15 mars au 15 mai. Publication de 100 photos pour sans-droits, édition Sophot.com. Débat les 18 mars et 13 avril à l'auditorium de la Mairie de Paris.
mercredi 17 mars 2010
Mort de Charles Moore, photographe témoin de la lutte pour les droits civiques aux USA
Son livre "Powerful days: The Civil Rights Photography » rassemble un témoignage unique sur la lutte pour les droits civiques aux Etats-Unis de la fin des années 50 et des années 60. Merci encore monsieur Moore pour ce que vous nous avez légué.
A voir et à lire:
Vidéo:
autre lien pour voir la vidéo si un problème d'affichage: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4242786686933713169#
Charles Moore: "I Fight With My Camera"
27:08 - Il y a 2 ans
Charles Moore is the legendary Montgomery photojournalist whose coverage of the Civil Rights era produced some of the most famous shots in the world (the dogs and fire hoses in Birmingham, the Selma Bridge, and Martin Luther King’s arrest in Montgomery, among many others.) His photographs are credited with helping to quicken the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The noted historian, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. said that Moore’s photographs transformed the national mood and made the legislation not just necessary, but possible. This is his story.
Site sur Charles Moore et son travail: http://www.viscom.ohiou.edu/oldsite/moore.site/Pages/index2.html
Hommage:
Charles Moore, 79, dies; photographed civil rights violence`
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/15/AR2010031503450.html
dimanche 7 mars 2010
Polka #8 sort le 8 mars
Polka #8 sort le 8 mars en France, Belgique et Suisse. Dans quelques jours pour le reste de l'Europe, les DOM, les Etats-Unis, le Canada et le Japon.
A découvrir dans cette édition spéciale sur l'Afrique du Sud:
Le dernier travail photographique de Jodi Bieber sur Soweto, publié en exclusivité dans Polka. Merci Jodi.
Egalement, un retour sur le parcours et la vie de Nelson Mandela...
Mais aussi un grand sur la photographie de plateau et plein d'autres surprises...
Bonne lecture
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