GMB Akash

GMB Akash 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. The photographs of GMB Akash have been exhibited all over the world. He has received more than 100 international photography awards.

Akash works as a photographer for Panos Pictures, UK, and founded the First Light Institute of Photography in Narayanganj, Bangladesh in August, 2013.

His work has been featured in The Guardian, the London Sunday Telegraph, The Fader,

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 2009, Travel Photographer of the Year winner