{"id":1864,"date":"2013-06-23T15:07:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T13:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newurl.com\/?page_id=1864"},"modified":"2014-07-25T18:52:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T16:52:17","slug":"gmb-akash","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.luganophotodays.ch\/en\/guests\/gmb-akash\/","title":{"rendered":"GMB Akash"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"akash-portrait\"To underline our lives, our awareness, I persist to treasure and poke the “spinal chord” of the world, by transforming suffering into photographs. For me, photography is my language to access, to communicate, to identify and mostly to make injustice and suffering to be heard. Through photography I only jot down my heart\u2019s language. The best part about being a photographer is that I\u2019m able to articulate the experiences of the voiceless and to bring their identities to the forefront which gives meaning and purpose to my own life.<\/p>\n

As a multimedia Journalist, I have travelled intensively in 22 countries and received more than 70 international awards and my work has been featured in over 80 major, international publications including: National Geographic, Vogue, Time, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Sunday Times, Newsweek, Geo, Stern, Der Spiegel, The Fader, Brand Ein, The Guardian, Marie Claire, Colors, The Economist, The New Internationalist, Kontinente, Amnesty Journal, Courier International, PDN, Die Zeit, Days Japan, Hello, and Sunday Telegraph of London.
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\nIn 2002 I became the first Bangladeshi to be selected for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in the Netherlands. In 2004 I received the Young Reporters Award from the Scope Photo Festival in Paris \u2014 once again, the first Bangladeshi to receive this honour. In 2005 I was awarded \u201cBest of Show\u201d at the Center for Fine Art Photography\u2019s international competition in Colorado, USA. And in 2006 I was awarded World Press Photo award and released my premier book \u201cFirst Light\u201d. In 2007 I became the first Bangladeshi to be selected for the 30 Emerging Photographers (PDN 30), sponsored by Photo District News Magazine, USA. I won the 7th Vevey International Photography Grant from Switzerland in 2009 and in the same year, I took home the international \u2018Travel photographer of the Year\u201d title at the International Travel Photographer of the Year Competition (TPOY 2009) in the UK, the most prestigious award in travel photography.<\/p>\n

I was one of the speakers in the fifth Global Investigative Journalism Conference, held at Lillehammer, Norway in 2008 and as well I was the first Bangladeshi in Ted talk at TEDxOporto 2011, in Portugal. I was one of the speaker of “7th Forum of Emerging Leaders in Asian Journalism”, Yogyakarta \/ Indonesia. In 2011. Nikon has selected me as one of the 8 influencers in Asia pacific (APAC region). In 2012 I have published my second book \u2018Survivors\u2019 which has reviewed by Prestigious Geo Magazine, worldwide.<\/p>\n

I presented my work as one of the speaker on UNICEF Dutch television in UNICEF Night 2012 in Amsterdam. The keynote speaker at the conference \u201cThe power of pictures\u201d in Germany, March 2013. One of the keynote Speaker in the momentous conference of Media Trends 2013 at Webster University Geneva.<\/p>\n

See also:
\n–\u00a0http:\/\/www.gmb-akash.com<\/a><\/p>\n

LuganoPhotoDays 2013<\/strong>
\n– exhibition\u00a0Survivors<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by GMB Akash: October 12-25, 2013
\n– guided visit with GMB Akash<\/a>: October 15 at 5 PM
\n– lecture with GMB Akash<\/a>: October 15 at 8:30 PM<\/p>\n

Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Svizzera)<\/strong>
\n– exhibition\u00a0Survivors<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by GMB Akash: December 14, 2013 – March\u00a013, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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