Drik picture library

Drik Picture Library Ltd. is a picture library set up by Bangladeshi writer and photographer Shahidul Alam and Bangladeshi writer and anthropologist Rahnuma Ahmed that has been awarded a grant by the Prince Claus Fund. The agency was set up in 1989 to provide a platform for local photographers in the majority world. the Bangladesh Human Rights Network, and DrikNews, independent news that extensively uses citizen journalism. More recently, Drik set up Majority World, an unprecedented photo library and agency set up to promote the work of photographers from the Global South 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.
Further reading
*Gerhard Haupt and Pat Binder, "", Nafas.
*"Drik Picture Library", Images against war, Galerie Lichtblick.
*Saad Hammadi, "Drik turns 18", New Age Xtra, 7-13 September 2007. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 18 December 2010.
*"Drik Picture Library Ltd", photography-now.com. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 10 February 2012.
*Indira Ravindran and Laila Duggan, "[http://books.google.co.jp/books?idc27vD2aoYWQC&pgPA33&lpgPA33&sourceweb&hlen&saX&oibook_result&ctresult&redir_esc=y#vonepage&q&ffalse Case study 1: Drik: Out of focus]"; in Jane Foster and Kumi Naidoo, eds, Young people at the centre: Participation and social change (London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2001; ISBN 0-85092-681-5).
*"Drik/Pathsala - Bangladesh", International Photographers and Researchers Network. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 1 July 2007.
*"New from the Network - 12 September 2007: Events and training: Drik celebrates 18th birthday with new exhibition - Bangladesh Now", Creative Exchange. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 24 March 2008.

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