Shahidul Alam is a Bangladeshi photojournalist, teacher, and social activist. A TIME “Person of the Year”, he is celebrated for his commitment to using his craft to preserve democracy in his country–at all costs. He started early in his career creating opportunities for photographers from the “Majority World” (i.e. the Global South) to document events in their own countries as a means of fostering democracy and equity. He subsequently created two institutes of photography in Bangladesh and the world’s largest photography festival outside of Europe and North America. He has always taken risks to show the threats facing Bangladeshi society and human rights, but it all came to a head on August 5, 2018; when he was arrested by the government and held for some three months  for speaking to Al Jazeera about student protests. Shahidul Alam is now a free man but he, at the time of this film’s release, is awaiting trial. He is being honored as the epitome of what Cornell Capa described as the concerned photographer.