GMB Akash ( bn, জি এম বি আকাশ) is a Bangladeshi
documentary photographer
Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history and historical events as well as everyday life. It is typically undertaken as professional pho ...
.
Life and work
GMB Akash is a Bangladeshi photographer who concentrates on people living on the edge of society around the world. His work has been featured in over 100 major publications including Vogue, Time, Sunday Times, Newsweek, Geo, Stern, Der Spiegel, The Fader, Brand Ein, The Guardian, Marie Claire. etc. The photographs of GMB Akash have been exhibited all over the world. He has received more than 100 international photography awards.
See his TED talk: The Super Heroes of Life.
Akash works as a photographer for
Panos Pictures
Panos Pictures is a photo agency based in London and founded in 1986. It specialises in stories about global social issues for international media and NGOs using photography and video. It also produces exhibitions and long-term documentary projec ...
, UK, and founded the First Light Institute of Photography in
Narayanganj
Narayanganj ( bn, নারায়ণগঞ্জ ''Naraeongônj'') is a city in central Bangladesh. It is in the Narayanganj District, about southeast of the capital city of Dhaka, and has a population of about 2 million. It is the 6th larges ...
, Bangladesh in August, 2013.
His work has been featured in ''
The Guardian
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'',
the London ''
Sunday Telegraph
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It is the sister paper of ''The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', kn ...
'',
["CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2010 award winners"](_blank)
''The Telegraph
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Australia
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'' Accessed 6 April 2015. ''
The Fader
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It is o ...
'',
Solo exhibitions
* Solo exhibition / book launch: ''First Light'' at the Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts. Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2006
* ''Survivors'' at Alliance Française de Dhaka, 2009;
* Lugano Photo Festival, Lugano, Switzerland, 2013
* ''Soulscapes'' at the Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2010;
* ''My Mapless world'', Art-Buvette APCd Gallery, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2013
Awards
* 2002, third place, Press Foundation of Asia, Bangladesh Chapter, photo contest
* 2002, World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass, the Netherlands
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* 2004, Young Reporters Award, The Scope Photo Festival in Paris][
* 2005, "Best of Show" award from the Center for Fine Art Photography, Colorado, US][
* 2007, UNICEF Photos of the Year, 2nd place.
* 2009, Travel Photographer of the Year winner]
References
External links
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1977 births
Living people
Bangladeshi photographers
People from Dhaka