Book Launch: The Tide Will Turn

Image: The Tide Will Turn, by Shahidul Alam, 2019, 184 pages, 18.5 x 23.5 cm, softcover, published by Steidl Books

RMIT SoA The Tide Will Turn_detail.jpg

Shahidul Alam
12 February 2020

CAST and the Centre for Contemporary Photography were proud to host the launch of photographer and activist Shahidul Alam’s latest book The Tide Will Turn, including an in-conversation with Dr Marnie Badham.

Shahidul is in Melbourne as an Adjunct Professor at RMIT and for the 2020 Activism at the Margins: Stories of Resistance, Survival and Social Change conference.

Dr Shahidul Alam is a Dhaka-based photographer and writer. He is the founder of the Drik Picture Library (1989), the Pathshala South Asian Media Institute (1998) and the Chobi Mela International Photography Festival (2000). Alam's books include Nature's Fury (2007), Portraits of Commitment (2009), My Journey as Witness (2011) and Best Years of My Life (2016). He has received many awards, among them the Shilpakala Padak from the President of Bangladesh (2014), the Humanitarian Award from the Lucie Awards (2018), and the ICP Infinity Award (2019). Alam is one of Time Magazine's Persons of the Year 2018.