Manzoor Alam Beg

Who is Manzoor Alam Beg?

Manzoor Alam Beg was a Bangladeshi photographer. He is a photographer of exceptional talent and international repute. He played a pioneering role in the modern art of photography movement in Bangladesh that began, by all accounts, with the setting up of the first photographic training centre known as Begart Institute of Photography and Bangladesh Photographic Society in Dhaka which he was the founding principal and former president. He was well known for his leadership qualities in organising photographers and photographic activities in a place that had practically no recent history of institutional or professional photography. Manzoor Alam Beg was honoured as ESFIAP at the FIAP 19th Congress in Germany,1987. He was honored with a title Aalokchitracharjo by BPS on behalf of Bangladeshi photographers community. He is considered as the Father of Fine Art Photography Movements in Bangladesh. Aalokchitracharjo Manzoor Alam Beg has been awarded the most prestigious Ekushey Podak given by Bangladesh government in 2007 besides 200 more national and international awards and honors.