GMB Akash
{{short description|Bangladeshi photographer (born 1977)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = GMB Akash
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| native_name = জি এম বি আকাশ
| birth_date = {{birth year|1977}}
| birth_place = Dhaka, Bangladesh
| birth_name = GMB Akash
| agent = Panos Pictures
| spouse =
| education = Mymensingh Zilla School
| children =
| years_active = 1996-present
| credits = World Press Photo Joop Swart Master Class, The Netherlands.
| known_for = Documentary photography
| occupation = Photojournalist
| website = {{URL|www.gmb-akash.com}}
}}
GMB Akash ({{langx|bn|জি এম বি আকাশ}}) is a Bangladeshi documentary photographer.
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.{{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole sentence|date=August 2022}} The photographs of GMB Akash have been exhibited all over the world. He has received more than 100 international photography awards.{{cite web |title=GMB Akash Facebook page |website=Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/gmbakash}}
Akash works as a photographer for Panos Pictures, UK,"[http://www.panos.co.uk/stories/1-5-1107-1576-AKA/GMB-Akash/ GMB Akash], Panos Pictures. Retrieved 6 April 2015. and founded the First Light Institute of Photography in Narayanganj, Bangladesh in August, 2013.{{cite web |title=About me |url=http://www.gmb-akash.com/about.php |website=GMB Akash}}
His work has been featured in The Guardian,{{cite news |date=29 January 2010 |title=Travel Photographer of the Year 2009: winner's gallery |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2010/jan/27/travel-photographer-of-the-year-2009 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=6 April 2015}}{{cite news |last=Pilkington |first=Ed |date=18 August 2010 |title=Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/19/women-slavery-half-the-sky |newspaper=The Guardian}} the London Sunday Telegraph,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100926094058/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/8020185/CIWEM-Environmental-Photographer-of-the-Year-2010-award-winners.html?image=3 "CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2010 award winners"]}}, The Telegraph Accessed 6 April 2015. The Fader,{{cite journal |date=1 October 2010 |title=No kids: GMB Akash exposes the dependence and negligence of Bangladesh's child labor force |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-280197199.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924153534/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-280197199.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 September 2015 |journal=The Fader }}
Solo exhibitions
- Solo exhibition / book launch: First Light at the Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts. Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2006{{cite news |date=5 May 2006 |title=First Light in Akash's World |newspaper=The Dhaka Courier |via=Infotrac Newsstand}}
- Survivors at Alliance Française de Dhaka, 2009;{{cite news |date=12 August 2009 |title=Akash's solo photo exhibition on Friday |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1827900571.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924203258/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1827900571.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 September 2015 |location=Dhaka |newspaper=United News of Bangladesh }}
- Lugano Photo Festival, Lugano, Switzerland, 2013{{cite web |url=http://www.luganophotodays.ch/en/guests/edition-2013/gmb-akash/exhibition/ |title=Exhibition: Survivors by GMB Akash |website=Lugano Photo Days |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023181306/http://www.luganophotodays.ch/en/guests/edition-2013/gmb-akash/exhibition/ |archivedate=23 October 2013}}
- Soulscapes at the Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2010;{{cite news |date=31 December 2010 |title=Year in Culture |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2010/12/HNY2011/7.htm |newspaper=The Daily Star |access-date=16 June 2015}}
- My Mapless world, Art-Buvette APCd Gallery, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2013{{cite press release |url=http://ipaimpress.com/voyage-collection/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420002037/http://ipaimpress.com/voyage-collection/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=April 20, 2013 |title=Photography - Voyage Collection |date=15 April 2013 |website=IMPress |publisher=International Press Association}}
Awards
- 2002, third place, Press Foundation of Asia, Bangladesh Chapter, photo contest{{cite news |date=6 February 2003 |title=Photojournalism plays key role in enriching newspapers |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-71567664.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924181744/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-71567664.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 September 2015 |location=Bangladesh |newspaper=The Independent |publisher=FDCH e-media |access-date=16 June 2015}}
- 2002, World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass, the Netherlands
- 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.{{cite news |date=18 December 2007 |title=Photo Gallery: UNICEF Photos of the Year 2007 |url=http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/photo-gallery-unicef-photos-of-the-year-2007-fotostrecke-27426-2.html |newspaper=Der Spiegel}}
- 2009, Travel Photographer of the Year winner
- 2010, CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year, Quality of Life winner
- 2014, one of ten finalists in Lugano Photo Days contest, Switzerland{{cite web |url=http://www.luganophotodays.ch/en/festival/edition-2014/contest/photo-gallery/ |title=Contest 2014 Photo Gallery Finalists |website=Lugano Photo Days}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|www.gmb-akash.com}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er-qGO2kqbI The Super Heroes of Life]
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