Munir Uz Zaman is a Bangladeshi photographer.

Biography

Munir Uz Zaman works for the Paris-based international news agency

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(AFP). He has received recognition and awards for his works documenting the

Rohingya refugee crisis In 2015, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people were forcibly displaced from their villages and IDP camps in Rakhine State, Myanmar, due to sectarian violence. Nearly one million fled to neighbouring Bangladesh and some travelled to Southe ...

. He has also published photos depicting daily life in

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 and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...

. His photo of Tashnuva Anan Shishir, Bangladesh's first transgender news anchor, seated in the

Boishakhi Television Boishakhi Television, (; , referring to the first month of the Bengali calendar) also known as Boishakhi TV, stylized as boishakhi tv, is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language privately owned satellite and cable television channel, headquartered in Moh ...

newsroom, flanked by her colleagues, was selected as one of ''

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'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 The Rana Plaza collapse (also referred to as the Savar building collapse) occurred on 24 April 2013, when the eight-story Rana Plaza commercial building collapsed due to a Structural integrity and failure, structural failure. The search for sur ...

Awards

* (2009)

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: 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

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