G.M.B. AKASH

Born: 1977, Dhaka. Bangladesh

education

2002: Graduation in Photojournalism from Pathshala, the South Asian Institute of Photography, Dhaka Bangladesh

2002: Degree in Computer Programming from NIIT, Dhaka, Bangladesh

1996: B.Com from Government Tolaram College, Narayangonj, Bangladesh

publications

Work has been featured in over 50 major international publications including:

Time, Sunday Times, Newsweek, Geo, Stern, Der Spiegel, 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.

exhibitions

2010: Survivor, an exhibition at the Galleria di Porta Pepice in Matera, Southern Italy, from 14th September to 31st December 2010.

2010: Born to Work, exhibited at the Images 2010 festival in Vevey, on the shores of Lake Geneva, from 4th to 26th September 2010.

2010: Exhibition Soulscapes at the Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts. Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2010: Exhibition Soulscapes at Alliance Francaise de Chittagong, Bangladesh.

2009: Exhibition at the Charleston Center for Photography in South Carolina, USA.

2009: Exhibition The Voice of the True Survivors at the HAT's Gallery in Alessandria, Italy.