honorable mention
K M Asad bangladesh
title
Cost of slavery
Coverage of the 2007 Cyclone Sidr deeply affected the then-young photographer and he became determined to turn into a documentary photographer. He has been following the Rohingya crisis -- one of the worst global refugee catastrophes since 2012. The National Geographic Magazine in its August 2019 issue’s cover published Asad’s photo from his detailed coverage of the Rohingya in the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. His work has also been taken as permanent collections in the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMOPA) in Japan.
Asad is now mainly working as an independent photographer. He also works as a Zuma Press contractor and Getty Images contributor. He is a fixed-term consultant for the World Bank in Bangladesh. His other clients include the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Agence-France Presse (AFP) Service, Plan Bangladesh, EDUCO, Forbes and UNDP Bangladesh.
After completed his photography graduation and working continuously as a professional photographer Asad has received numerous honors and awards including UNICEF Picture Of the Year, China International Press Photo Contest (CHIPP), Picture of the Year International (POYI), Days Japan International Photojournalism Award, New York Press Photographers Association (NPPA), The Lucie Award (IPA).
His works have been published in TIME, New York Times, National Geographic Magazine, La Stampa, CNN, VICE, The Telegraph, BBC, The Guardian, CNBC, Deutsche Welle, Yahoo News, Amnesty International, Los Angeles Times, International Business Times, Human Rights Watch, ABC News, MSN, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal.
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entry description
"This building will stand a hundred years," owner boasted just a day before collapse. The next morning, it came down."Aha re," the people shook their heads and asked sympathetically So sad."Shoitaner shoitan," they cursed the owner of the building. The devil's devil. The number of dead bodies crossed thousand so fast. Thousands of mourners have gathered at the ruins of a garment factory building (rana plaza at savar) to offer prayers for the souls of the 1,127 people who died in the structure's collapse 24th april, the worst tragedy in the history of the global garment industry. It came months after a fire at another garment factory in Bangladesh in November killed 112 workers. These two are mentionable , time before also couple of accidents happened and many lost their close ones in those tragedy. Savar tragedy is a symbol of our failure as a nation. The crack in Rana Plaza that caused the collapse of the building has only shown us that if we don't face up to the cracks in our state systems, that we as a nation will get lost in the debris of the collapse. Bangladesh’s government also agreed to allow garment workers to form unions without permission from factory owners. That decision came a day after it announced a plan to raise the minimum wage in the industry. Many Western companies[clarification needed] which have activities in Bangladesh have engaged in significant public relations campaigns to minimize the fallout from revelations about their worker's inhumane conditions. Dozens of consumers in the US spoke out against unsafe working conditions found in the factory building. People also unleashed their anger at retailers that did not have any connections to that specific building, but are known to source from factories located in Bangladesh.about the photographer
K M Asad was born in 1983 in the Mughal part of Dhaka city and spent his early life in the vivid alleys of the Bangladeshi capital’s old part. He graduated from ‘Pathshala’ - The South Asian Institute of Photography - where he studied photojournalism between 2005 and 2008.Coverage of the 2007 Cyclone Sidr deeply affected the then-young photographer and he became determined to turn into a documentary photographer. He has been following the Rohingya crisis -- one of the worst global refugee catastrophes since 2012. The National Geographic Magazine in its August 2019 issue’s cover published Asad’s photo from his detailed coverage of the Rohingya in the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. His work has also been taken as permanent collections in the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMOPA) in Japan.
Asad is now mainly working as an independent photographer. He also works as a Zuma Press contractor and Getty Images contributor. He is a fixed-term consultant for the World Bank in Bangladesh. His other clients include the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Agence-France Presse (AFP) Service, Plan Bangladesh, EDUCO, Forbes and UNDP Bangladesh.
After completed his photography graduation and working continuously as a professional photographer Asad has received numerous honors and awards including UNICEF Picture Of the Year, China International Press Photo Contest (CHIPP), Picture of the Year International (POYI), Days Japan International Photojournalism Award, New York Press Photographers Association (NPPA), The Lucie Award (IPA).
His works have been published in TIME, New York Times, National Geographic Magazine, La Stampa, CNN, VICE, The Telegraph, BBC, The Guardian, CNBC, Deutsche Welle, Yahoo News, Amnesty International, Los Angeles Times, International Business Times, Human Rights Watch, ABC News, MSN, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal.
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