Internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi photographer, writer, activist and Time's Person of the Year 2018, Shahidul Alam's first comprehensive U.S. museum survey has started following its public opening at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York on November 8. The exhibition has been covered cover the works from Alam's four-decade career, where he has developed a broad work in both in education and in promotion of ethics and commitment towards the issues that affect societies and people in Bangladesh and all across the world through his activism and photography.

The exhibition will run till May 4, 2020 featuring over 40 photographs and ephemera including portraits, landscapes, and scenes of daily life, strife, and of resistance in the "majority world" - a phrase Alam has used since the 1990s to reframe the notion of the "third world" or "global south".

The exhibition has highlighted Shahidul's important bodies of work, including A Struggle for Democracy, his earliest series as a professional photojournalist, which highlights Bangladesh's political struggles against an autocratic leader in the 1980s; photographs from the Brahmaputra Diary series, which explores life across three regions (India, the Tibetan Plateau in China, and Bangladesh) and religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam) along the length of the majestic Brahmaputra River; a sculptural installation of portraits on straw mats from Kalpana's Warriors, which attempts to break the silence on the disappearance of feminist activist Kalpana Chakma; and more.

As part of the exhibition, Shahidul Alam will give a talk on November 7 at 6pm (US Time) at the Rubin Museum of Art.