Drik on Wednesday organised a special one-day photography exhibition titled Crossfire by photographer, journalist, and human rights activist Shahidul Alam, at Drik Gallery in the capital.
The exhibition depicted extra-judicial killings in Bangladesh. The exhibition scheduled to be inaugurated on March 22, 2010, but the police closed the exhibition before the inauguration.
The special exhibition also displayed photographs, videos and audios of the event which was opened for the public after a writ petition by the photographer.
‘The exhibition was a research-based photography project mostly created at the same place where the Rapid Action Battalion killed people. Without showing blood or any dead body the images were created with torch lights and other artificial lights because almost all incidents took place at midnight,’ Shahidul Alam said, adding that the exhibition was aimed to protest at the extra-judicial killings.   Â
‘This series was exhibited across Bangladesh, across the globe using multiple genres because we tried to find many ways to show the works amid government restriction,’ Shahidul Alam said, adding that they published 500 portfolio versions with captions for mass exhibitions across the country. Â
‘As an artist or journalist we need to continue our protest because only producing a fine image is not a job of an artist,’ said Shahidul Alam.
Crossfire has displayed more than 20 formal exhibitions at home and abroad since 2010.