Shahidul Alam studied and taught chemistry in London University before taking up photography. He returned to his hometown Dhaka in 1984, where he photographed the democratic struggle to remove General Ershad. A former president of the Bangladesh Photographic Society, Alam set up the Drik Agency, the Bangladesh Photographic Institute and Pathshala, the South Asian Institute of Photography. He has been a recipient of the Mother Jones, Howard Chapnick and Andrea Frank awards. Alam is also a jury member in numerous international contests, including World Press Photo, which he has judged on three occasions. Alam is an Honorary Fellow of the Bangladesh Photographic Society and the Royal Photographic Society.

Professor Rahnuma Ahmed was the founder chair of the first department of Anthropology in Bangladesh. The author of several books, Professor Ahmed is a regular columnist writing on women's issues and contemporary politics.

My name is A.S.M. Reza Ur Rahman but most people call me Reza. I am a self-taught man with a linguistics background. At Drik I work as Head of Operations and I really love my job. Personally, I am a complicated mixture of good and bad, considerate and selfish, loving and callous, optimist and pessimist, cool and obstinate. I am extremely Catholic in my taste and read everything at hand. I want to live for another 72 years and my last wish is that the epitaph on my grave will read: “Here lies a man who was a jack of all trades but a master of none. Let him, thus, rest in peace.”

My first job was in a bakery. The second was in the finishing section of a garments factory. The third was in a construction firm where I worked as a supervisor. I have been at Drik since October 1990. I’m the office manager at Drik, and the son of the late Sk. Ishak and Mrs. Asora Begum. I love outdoor sports, especially football and kabadi. I also like to help people in need. I dislike shrewdness, pretence and gossip.”

You can simply call me Irfan. After completing a photography course I joined Drik as a photo lab technician. I later obtained a diploma from BEGART Photography Institute in Dhaka and attended the IIPC photography workshop in Madras, India as well as a workshop conducted by photographer Steve Conlan. In 1996, one of my photos got special mention in a contest held at Tritoranga, Chittagong. I participated in Bangladesh Photographic Society’s international photography competition and exhibition in 1997. The following year I won the UNESCO Accu Award. My photographs have been exhibited in Romania and some have been published in ‘Mosaic in Green’, a publication of the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry.

Shopna Akter was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1984. She started photography with a group called 'Out of Focus' in 1994. Since then, she completed a basic photography course from Pathshala, the South Asian Institute of Photography in 2001. She also completed a one-month video documentary course under Lanurent Van Lanker from Belgium's Polymorfilms and now works as both a photographer and videographer. She is currently working with Shahidul Alam of Drik as an assistant.

Shopna has undertaken assignments with the Bengal Foundation and UNICEF, and has several works published. Her work has also been exhibited at several group events, such as Chobi Mela 2000, Photos In Our Language, 2001, Out of Focus 10th Anniversary, Bangladesh Tourism Festival at the Shishu Academy, 2005 and an exhibition for Women's Day in 2006.

Md. Mazharul Islam (Kajal) was born in 1979 in Dhaka. He did his B. Com (Hons) and M. Com in Management from the National University. He completed CACC from ICAB, Dhaka. Islam has been working at Drik since 2006 as an Accounts Officer. His hobbies include traveling, music and games. He participated in debate in 1996 organised by Dhaka University Debating Club and was a PL of Bangladesh Scouts. He has practical audit experiences from different government agencies, NGOs, and various companies.

My name is Md. Azharul Islam, my colleagues call me Azhar Bhai. I am Drik’s office assistant. My parents are Md. Sirajuddin Dhali and the late Zahida Khatun. I studied up to Class 5. Before coming here, I worked at Dhaka Fisheries between 1991 and 1993. I like eating, cleanliness, dressing well and also living harmoniously with others. I dislike quarrels and gossip. I am at Drik to earn enough money to support myself.