Sharif Khiam Ahmed

Barisal | 2006 | Photo: Sharif Khiam The rain-soaked new look of childhood's favorite alleys-roads and corners, the wise surge of old trees, padma-pukur (pond of lotus), Sunil or Apuda's tea with the silence of the Jail Khal (canal) and Bagan (garden), the curious gaze of hundreds of familiar and unfamiliar eyes, Lechu Shah, dead friends, Tapa Pagla, Town Hall, from the cows and goats of the grasslands on the banks of the Kirtankhola to the ilish (hilsa) floating in the clouds, gallinule's call in the old bush, rows of swan running through clear water or the noise of the egret's returning , row upon row of known- unknown lights, shops, magazines, organizations, the fading Tagore or Nawab Estate, Brahmamandir, market built on the land of 'Shaheber gorshthan' (crischtan Graveyard) adjacent to Brown Compound, Modified Jail gate and unchanged Doi Ghor (yogurt house), thirty-five year old Shobdaboli , a new offspring of the Shalik-sparrow living on the ventilator ...

Jibon Ahmed | 21 February 2022 | Photo: Sharif Khiam   Jibon Ahmed is not just one of my beloved photojournalists , but also one of my personal heroes. I've always been overjoyed with his success. He became a part of another history as one of the first Bangladesh Press Photography Award winners. I'm confident he'll achieve more institutional recognition in the future. Because he believes that being a happy person is more important than being a good photographer. Jibon was fired from his job in 2018 as he published public kiss scenes on social media . This well-known photojournalist became unemployed after being vindicated by the Bengali Online News Portal " purboposhchimbd ." Yet, at the time, the portal's editor, Khujista Nur-e-Naharin Munni , told me, "The final decision has not been taken in this regard yet." Previously, during the attack on writer and blogger Abhijit Roy in 2015, Jibon had photographed the scene. He was the one to take Aviji...