We held a most successful week-long photo exhibition following the Ummid 2010 photo competition. See the winners here.  Over 500 images were received, and we displayed the top 41 images at the Alliance Francaise de Dhaka. The Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission Honourable Justice Amirul Kabir Chowdhury  opened the photo exhibtion. We received good press coverage and TV channel Bangla ATN also covered it. Plans are afoot to publish a book.

Shafiur Rahman and Bablu Sheikh are organising the Ummid 2010 Photo Competition along with Al-Falah Bangladesh. The competition is to mark the 2nd anniversary of a landmark court judgement which brought statelessness to an end for the Urdu-speaking people of Bangladesh. The issue was the subject of a an award-winning documentary, Swapnabhumi, co-produced by Shafiur. Visit the web site here. The competition will refocus attention on the problems that still remain and the difficulties of building an inclusive society.