cyclone sidr

cyclone sidr attack on 2007 in the costal area of bangladesh.thousands of people died.ccording to the Disaster Management Control Room (DMCR), total damage in sidr till 03/12/07, 141 upazilas and 1,119 unions have been affected.The total number of affected families stands at 10.54 lakh, representing 40.83 lakh individuals. Crops on 29,374 acres of land have been completely destroyed and on 8,55,525 acres have been damaged partially, according to the government assessment. The number of completely destroyed houses stood at 3,00,511 and the number of partially damaged houses was 6,26,000. Besides, 3,84,000 trees have been damaged. Some 792 educational institutions have been completely destroyed and 4,393 were partly damaged. Embankments of about 57 kilometres (km) of length have been damaged, and 58km of road has been destroyed completely while 87,948km of road has been partly damaged. An official of the DMCR noted, "The picture will continue to evolve. We expect to get a complete picture of the damage within a month......... Location: shoronkhola,khulna(from 19/11/07-21/11/07)

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Noor Alam is a documentary photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was born in 1980. He has finished his 3-year graduation program in photojournalism at Pathshala, South Asian Institute of Photography in 2008. He currently works for DrikNEWS, International News Photo Agency.

Noor’s works have been published in many Bangladeshi national newspapers and magazines, i.e. The daily Star, the daily New Age, The daily New Nation, The daily Ittefaq, the daily Prothom Alo, the monthly Purple, the weekly Ekattor, tri-monthly Shilparup and international publications including Time Asia (Hong Kong), Himal magazine (Nepal).

Noor’s first solo exhibition Ballads of the Agonized Souls held at Zainul Gallery in May 2009. He has also authored a book with the same title, which depicts struggles of thalassaemia patients of Bangladesh. Besides, his photos have been shown in several group exhibitions, namely Morten Krogvold Students’ Works in international photography festival Chobi Mela IV at National Art Gallery in Dhaka in 2006, Something About Reflections at Alliance Française de Dacca in 2006, Portrait Photography at Goethe Institutes in 2002, Pathshala Students’ Work at Drik Gallery in Dhaka in 2008.

Noor Alam's current location:
Dhaka, Bangladesh

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