International Exhibitions:
Over the past twenty five years he has held exhibitions in leading galleries in the US, Europe and Asia. Notable group exhibitions have also been held at: the Photographer’s Gallery in London, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris.

International assignments:
Alam divides his time between managing Drik Picture Library in Dhaka, undertaking international assignments which to date have taken him to over 40 countries and teaching and lecturing internationally.

Fellowships:
In 1990, Alam was made an Honorary Fellow of the Bangladesh Photographic Society. This was followed by a similar honour from the Royal Photographic Society in 2001.

Represented by:
Drik now handles most of Alam’s work though his work has also been distributed by Sipa in Paris, Network Photographers in London and Digital House in Tokyo.

Current assignments:
Alam’s ongoing photographic projects include: Positive Lives, a documentation of people living positively with HIV and Migrant Labour, a study of the situation of migrant workers in Bahrain, Bangladesh, Malaysia, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore and UAE. The work was commissioned by London-based Autograph. Brahmaputra, is his photo essay on life around the river, covering Tibet, North Eastern India and Bangladesh.

Curator:
Alam has curated the Asian Section of Positive Lives, a global exhibition on community responses to HIV. Together with Robert Pledge, the president of Contact Press Images, he curated The War We Forgot, the main exhibition at Chobe Mela I, South Asia’s bi-annual festival of photography held for the first time in 2000.

Major photographic interest:
Democracy and human rights.