Drik

Drik, Bangladesh is a distinctive multimedia organization that has made challenging social inequality its central driving force. Over the last two decades Drik has successfully partnered with national and international organizations to conduct several successful socially responsible programs. Investigative reporting is an essential part of these programs. Credibility of information combined with powerful images presented in these projects have made it possible for Drik to bring out into the open opaque and delicate social issues for public debate and discussion.

Thus, inherent in Drik’s work is this ability to use the power of the visual medium to educate, inform and draw powerful emotional responses to influence public opinion.

The services and activities of Drik are: Audio Visual, Drik Picture Agency, Gallery & Event Management, Photography, Publication, Articles, Calendars, Exhibitions, and News Networks. Read more >>

Pathshala

Building on more than a decade of experience as South Asia’s premier institute of photography, Pathshala has expanded its reach to embrace media in all its forms: television, print, radio, online, citizen journalism and social networking. Now, in addition to photojournalism, the cornerstone of our curriculum, Pathshala is providing professional training to working and aspiring journalists who seek the skills and knowledge to engage, inform, and empower the public, in Bangladesh and beyond. Read more >>

Chobi Mela

International festival of photography. Read more >>

Banglarights

Banglarights, Bangladesh Human Rights Network, was launched in February 2001. It is an independent web portal which exposes and challenges discriminations and violations of human rights. This portal (www.banglarights.net) upholds human rights reforms both in Bangladesh and in the international arena, in support of women, children, and marginalized communities resisting various forms of oppression. Furthermore, it investigates and monitors the attempts of global forces, powerful governments, transnational corporations and international organizations, to exploit and dominate nations, communities and individuals through surveillance, covert means, military and economic superiority.

Since its inception Banglarights has become internationally recognized as one of the leading sites for information on human rights. Read more >>

Majority world

MAJORITY WORLD ™ is a picture agency with a difference. It promotes the work of talented local photographers, allowing them to provide their unique insider perspective to tell the stories to their countries.

MAJORITY WORLD ™ markets their pictures and pays them fair international rates. There rates provide on average eight times the purchasing power, when translated into local currencies.

MAJORITY WORLD ™ Provides:

• An opportunity for business and other organizations to use responsibly sourced pictures.
• An opportunity for talented photographers from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to compete equally in global markets.
• An opportunity for businesses to invest in this exciting start-up which adapts fair trade principles to the digital sector. Read More >>

Drik News

Images shape our perceptions. The manufacture of consent has rarely been more engineered. With everything from wars to presidential campaigns being stage managed and with mainstream news increasingly fed by official sources, reliance on usual sources of news images has become increasingly dangerous.

Majority world countries suffer particularly from stereotypical representations, and while the media worldwide is increasingly being dominated by a few players, it becomes particularly important for news sources to be diverse and varied. With Getty and Corbis controlling the stock market, and Reuters, AP, AFP and EPA dominating the wires, communities in the west are looking for new ways to challenge established media, especially through citizen journalism. The majority world has traditionally been represented by white, middle class, western photographers. But having local photographers is not in itself sufficient. While editorial control remains in the North, stories will continue to have a northern slant, and the only way in which this can be challenged is through alternative sources being formed that are independent of western and corporate media.

DrikNEWS is designed to fill this void. This agency, an independent body of Drik Picture Library, aims to cover news photography and investigative reporting by disseminating both locally and internationally through the web. Read More >>

Drik TV

While there has been a dramatic rise in the number of television stations in Bangladesh, the nature of such entities involves huge investment of capital and large bureaucracies. As such these organizations are controlled either by state or corporate interest.

The advent of new media has created opportunities for leaner, faster moving, on-the-fly reporting that has its finger on the pulse on the key issues that concern the public. Not dependent on advertising revenues and free of the inertia of big budgets, these entities are able to reflect the aspirations of the person on the street, like no previous technology could.

Drik has always played a pioneering role having initiated the nation’s first picture library, web portal, school of photography, email network and media academy. Mobile phones are the folk media of the future and DrikTV takes innovation to a new step by providing content especially designed for the person on the street.

Relevant, topical, entertaining and accurate, DrikTV will be broadcasting content that current TV is incapable of covering, or is afraid to broach. It is people’s media in the truest sense of the word. Read more >>