Kazi Riasat Alve is a young photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He studied business at the University of Chittagong and in Dhaka, but became interested in photography when a friend gave him a hand-me-down Nikon D40. His specific interest in documentary photography came after seeing works of master photographers such as Josef Koudelka, Daido Moriyama, Alex Webb and Raghu Rai. He has participated in a documentary photography workshop conducted by Agence Vu’ photographer Pieter Ten Hoopen and is enrolled in the documentary photography mentorship program under prominent Bangladeshi documentary photographer Saiful Huq Omi at Counter Foto. His photography has received recognition by various global organizations, most recently in the 2013 Ian Parry Scholarship where he was a awarded ‘Commended’. His photographs has been exhibited in many parts of the world including London’s Somerset House, as part of the Sony World Photography Awards, and at MOTHER London gallery in conjunction with the Ian parry Scholarship, above. His work has also been exhibited in Singapore, Australia, Romania, India, Slovakia and his home country Bangladesh. Recently he is also featured in The New Yorker Magazine’s “Photo Booth” as one of the emerging photographers of the world. His works also published in many prestigious international publications including Sunday Times Magazine, The New Yorker Magazine, and Documentary Photography Review magazine and leading local newspapers of Bangladesh. Alve's portfolio: www.lightstalkers.org/kazi-riasat-alve