School for photography founded in 1998 by Bangladeshi photojournalist, curator and activist Shahidul Alam, originally named Pathshala Institute. Its founding mission was to create a space where students could learn photography as an art form and with a clear sensitivity towards social and political issues. It expanded in 2010, diversifying to include other forms of visual media, including news broadcasting and animation. At the time of writing it has two departments — one for photography and another for film and television. The institute has quotas of places reserved for women and minority communities, to encourage them to take up the visual arts.