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List Of Bangladeshi Photographers
This is a list of Bangladeshi photographers, people from or associated with Bangladesh and are notable for their excellence in the field of photography: A * Aftab Ahmed * Gazi Nafis Ahmed * Naib Uddin Ahmed * GMB Akash * Taslima Akhter * Shahidul Alam * K M Asad B * Manzoor Alam Beg * Andrew Biraj G * Hasan Saifuddin Chandan H * Amanul Haque * Mohammad Rakibul Hasan * Anwar Hossain * Mohammad Ponir Hossain K * Sayeeda Khanam M * Nasir Ali Mamun P * Sarker Protick R * Probal Rashid S * Jashim Salam * Bijon Sarkar T * Rashid Talukder W * Munem Wasif Z * Munir Uz Zaman References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bangladeshi photographers Bangladeshi Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay. Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ... Photographers Photography in Bangladesh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated countries in the world, and shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast; to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor; and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Dhaka, the capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city, is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Chittagong, the second-largest city, is the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal. The official language is Bengali language, Bengali, one of the easternmost branches of the Indo-Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anwar Hossain (photographer)
Anwar Hossain (6 October 1948 – 1 December 2018) was a Bangladeshi photographer and cinematographer. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Cinematography a record five times for the films Sundori (1979), Emiler Goenda Bahini (1980), Puraskar (1983), Anya Jibon (1995) and Lalsalu (2003). Early life and education Hossain was born in Old Dhaka in 1948. He completed his SSC from Armanitola Government High School and HSC from Notre Dame College, Dhaka in 1965 and 1967 respectively. He graduated in architecture from BUET and a diploma in cinematography from the Film and Television Institute of Pune, India. Career Hossain started his photography career in 1967. His photography captured the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Hossain worked as a cinematographer of total 15 fictions and 30 documentary films. Personal life and death Hossain married to Bangladeshi film actress and writer Dolly Anwar in 1979. Anwar committed suicide on 3 July 1991. Hossain migrated to France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Photographers By Nationality
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Munir Uz Zaman
Munir Uz Zaman is a Bangladeshi photographer. Biography Munir Uz Zaman works for the Paris-based international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). He has received recognition and awards for his works documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis. He has also published photos depicting daily life in Bangladesh. His photo of Tashnuva Anan Shishir, Bangladesh's first transgender news anchor, seated in the Boishakhi Television newsroom, flanked by her colleagues, was selected as one of ''Time (magazine), Time's'' top 100 photos of 2021. In 2023, he participated in a group exhibition at Drik Gallery in Dhaka to mark the ten year anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse. Awards * (2009) Pictures of the Year International: honorary mention, spot news * (2012) FCCT/OnAsia: first place, spot news * (2013) Human Rights Press Awards: first prize, feature photojournalism, for pictures of Rohingya refugees * (2013) Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar: second place, spot news References {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munem Wasif
Munem Wasif ( bn, মুনেম ওয়াসিফ) (born 11 April 1983) is a photographer from Bangladesh. Biography Munem Wasif is a documentary photographer in Bangladesh. He has been represented by Agence Vu since 2008, and is now teaching documentary photography at Pathshala South Asian Media Academy. He was selected for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in 2007. In 2008, he won the City of Perpignan Young Reporter's Award at Visa pour l'image. That year, he also won the International Award for concerned photography, the F25 for under-25's in the Fabrica awards. The following year, he was awarded the Prix Pictet commission for his work on the water crisis of the north-west region of Bangladesh. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Musée de l'Élysée, and the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, the International Photography Biennial of the Islamic World in Iran, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Japan, the Kunsthal Museum a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rashid Talukder
Rashid Talukder (24 October 1939 – 25 October 2011) was a Bangladeshi photojournalist for '' The Daily Ittefaq'', most known for capturing some of the defining images of the genocide during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. Talukder was a founder of the Bangladesh Photo Journalists' Association. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Chobi Mela, an international photography festival in Dhaka, in 2006, and the 2010 the 'Pioneer Photographer Award' given by National Geographic magazine. Early life and education Born 24 October 1939 in Baj Baj, near Calcutta (now Kolkata) in Pargana (now 24 Parganas), Bengal Presidency, British India (now in West Bengal, India). He developed an interest in photography while still at school, and by the time he reached class 8 in 1945, he started working in the darkroom. Career Talukdar started his career in 1962, as a press photographer with '' The Sangbad'' in Dhaka in the then East Pakistan. After working here for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bijon Sarkar
Bijon Sarkar ( bn, বিজন সরকার) (11 April 1935 – 29 November 2012) was a Bangladeshi photographer. Life and work He was born on 11 April 1935, in Gaibandha, Bangladesh, the son of Gouranath Sarkar. Bijon Sarkar left home for Dhaka after his parents died and his ancestral land was lost in river erosion. Bijon had his first lessons in photography from his elder brother Tarapodo Sarkar, who was a self-taught sculptor but pursued photography at leisure. His first professional training in photography was while he participated in the workshop conducted by photographer Manzoor Alam Beg in 1961. Sarkar's career in photography took off after his appointment at the Pakistan's Geological Survey in 1962. Seven years later, he joined Pakistan Television as a cameraman. The television authority sacked him after the War of Independence began in 1971, forcing Sarkar to take refuge in India. He later joined Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation as its Chief Photographer in 1972 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jashim Salam
Jashim Salam (born 1978) is a Bangladeshi documentary photographer and photojournalist. Biography Salam graduated in photography from Pathshala the south Asian institute of photography and media academy. He has studied a post Graduation Diploma in Visual Journalism through a scholarship program of World Press Photo at the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism (ACFJ) at Ateneo de Manila University , mottoeng = Light in the Lord , type = Private, research, non-profit, coeducational basic and higher education institution , established = December 10, 1859 , religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic (Jesuits) , academic_aff ... in the Philippines. He has been teaching, mentoring photography in workshops and seminars for aspiring young photographers regularly and has also been on the jury boards of numerous photography contests in Bangladesh. Social photo-documentary, portraits are among his interests. He started his photographic career with DrikNEWS agency ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Probal Rashid
Probal Rashid ( bn, প্রবাল রশিদ; born 1979) is a Bangladeshi documentary photographer and photojournalist based in Washington, D.C. He is a contributor photographer at Getty images. His work has appeared in several magazines and newspapers. Early life and education Rashid was born in Gazipur, Bangladesh, in 1979, and grew up there as the rural area urbanized and industrialized. He completed secondary school and a Bachelor's in Business Administration there. His middle-class parents wanted him to get a corporate job, so he moved to Dhaka, earned a Master of Business Administration and started an internship with a financial aid company. He quit his job and in 2007 enrolled in two-year course at Pathshala, a school of photography. Rashid completed a post Graduation Diploma in photojournalism Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarker Protick
Sarker Protick ( bn, সরকার প্রতিক) is a Bangladeshi photographer and visual artist. Life and work Protick is a lecturer at Pathshala-South Asian Media Institute and co-curator at Chobi Mela International Photography Festival. He is a former member of the VII Photo Agency and is represented by East Wing Gallery. He was chosen by the ''British Journal of Photography'' as 'One to watch' in 2014. Publications Joint publication *''Astres Noirs.'' Chose Commune, 2016. With Katrin Koenning. . Edition of 1500 copies. **Second, augmented edition with different cover. Chose Commune, 2017. . Edition of 1500 copies. Contributions to publications *''Under the Banyan Tree.'' South Asian Media Academy, 2011. Catalogue of images by 15 photographers from Pathshala in Bangladesh. . Includes ''In Midnight Black'' by Protick. Reception The book ''Astres Noirs'' was the result of Protick distributing his work using social media. On Instagram, Protick in Bangladesh and Koenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasir Ali Mamun
Nasir Ali Mamun (born 1953) is a Bangladeshi portrait photographer. He is known as Camerar Kobi (The Poet with the Camera). He received The Daily Star-Standard Chartered Bank's ''Celebrating Life Lifetime Achievement Award'' in photography in 2017. In 2016, Mamun released a photo album titled ''Ananta Jibon Jodi'' featuring photographs of writer Humayun Ahmed. Bibliography * ''Ahmed Sofar Samay'' (Era of Ahmed Sofa Ahmed Sofa ( bn, আহমদ ছফা, ; 30 June 194328 July 2001) was a Bangladeshi writer, thinker, novelist, poet, philosopher and public intellectual. Sofa is considered by many, including National Professor Abdur Razzaq and Salimullah Kha ...) * ''Charalnama'' (Story of the Untouchable) * ''Mati of Manush'' (Earth and Human) References 1953 births Living people People from Dhaka Bangladeshi photographers {{Bangladesh-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sayeeda Khanam
Sayeeda Khanam (29 December 1937 – 18 August 2020) was the first female professional photographer of Bangladesh. She covered many important events of Bangladesh Liberation War, Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 through her photography. Early life and education Khanam was born in Pabna District in the then Bengal Presidency (now Bangladesh). She is the youngest among her two brothers and four sisters. Her interest in photography began at a very early age when her sister bought her a Rolleicord camera. She never received any institutional training on photography, but learned from foreign photography magazines which were given to her by the owner of Jaidi's studio, a studio of Dhaka. Khanam completed her master's degree in Bengali literature and library science from the University of Dhaka. Career In 1956, she began her career as a photographer in ''Begum (magazine), Begum'', the only newspaper dedicated to women at that time. Her photographs have been published in several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
