Journalism & Media International Center
Photojournalism students from China, Bangladesh, Nepal and Norway attended a start-up workshop in Nepal last week with world-famous Christopher Morris and Philip Blenkinsop from VII Academy as tutors.
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Abeer Saady teaching the students how to protect each other (Photo: Nima Taheri)
JMIC safety trainer Abeer Saady held a one day safety workshop in Oslo this week. Read More
Abeer Saady and Shahidul Alam in Dublin this week
JMIC´s safety trainer Abeer Saady attended 2019 Dublin Platform for Human Rights Defenders this week.
Among over 120 human rights defenders from more than 80 countries was also Shahidul Alam, Person of the Year in Time magazine last year – a long time cooperation partner of OsloMet. Read More
From the opening in Oslo (Photo: Ellen Lande Gossner)
Ten of the projects from the photo exhibition “Golden Pig” is exhibited in Oslo for the first time. Read More
Photo (from left): Per Mattsson, Bernt Eide, Jon Petter Evensen, Cathrine Gladh, Søren Pagter, Mads Greve and Terje Lindblom.
The preparations for a Nordic Master in Photojournalism continues.
Shahidul Alam from Pathshala and David Engmo, student at OsloMet
Students from four countries opened an exhibition and launched a book with fresh images from China – Golden Pig – during DOK19 in Fredrikstad 24 May.
In his opening remarks, Shahidul Alam, the founder of Pathshala South Asian Media Institute in Bangladesh, drew the line back to the start of the cooperation with partners in Norway around twenty years ago.
Afterwards a new cooperation agreement with Pathshala was signed by Marja Lundell, the Director of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Oslo Metropolitan University, present at the opening in Fredrikstad.
One student and one teacher came from photo.circle in Nepal, from Pathshala in Bangladesh and from Mino Art Center in China – to celebrate with ten Norwegian students, friends and colleagues.
Most of them were participants at DOK19 – a national festival for documentary photography and photojournalism running from 23 until 25 May.
The exhibition outside the House of Literature
Students from China, Nepal, Bangladesh and Norway meeting again
Marja Lundell from OsloMet with Shahidul Alam from Pathshala
The students from Nepal, Bangladesh, China and Norway the last day of the six weeks training – with some of the Chinese helpers.
After six weeks in the field students from Nepal, Bangladesh, Norway and China are heading home with the luggage full of new images. Read More
Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam was released from jail after more than 100 days behind bars this week.
He has been under medical observation and is still going through check-ups, according to his colleagues in Pathshala, South Asian Media Institute in Dhaka.
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Shahidul Alam (third from the right) together with colleagues from Bangladesh during the DOK festival in Fredrikstad in 2015 (Photo: Jon Petter Evensen)
One of OsloMet’s international partners, Shahidul Alam, has been imprisoned. The university has now sent a letter to Bangladeshi authorities to demand his release. Read More
