Pavel Rahman

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Pavel Rahman is a Bangladeshi photographer and Ekushey Padak award recipient.

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Early life

Rahman was born on 26 April 1956 in Rangpur, East Pakistan, Pakistan. [1]

Career

Rahman joined the weekly Akota in 1973 as a photographer. From 1976 to 1980, he worked as a photographer in The Sangbad . From 1980 to 1993 he worked at The New Nation. [1] In 1983, he took an iconic photograph of the back of Noor Hossain, which read "Gonotontra mukti pak" ("Let democracy be freed"), during protests against military dictator Hussain Mohammad Ershad. [2]

In 1993, he joined the Banglabazar Patrika as the Photo Editor. He joined the Janakantha in 1994 and worked their till 1997. He joined the Associated Press as a photographer and is the photography adviser of the daily Prothom Alo. [1] In 2008, he won the Pictures of the Year International award, one of seven winners from the Associated Press. [3]

Rahman held a three-day solo exhibition on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Rangpur Zilla School in March 2019. [4] In 2021, he was awarded the Ekushey Padak for photography. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Pavel Rahman". pavelrahman.com. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  2. ↑ "Noor Hossain and the image that helped bring down a dictator". BBC News. 2020-12-06. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  3. ↑ "AP's Pavel Rahman wins Picture of the Year award". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  4. ↑ Logic. ""Pavel preserves true history in Bangabandhu's pictures" | Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)" . Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  5. ↑ "21 eminent personalities get Ekushey Padak". The Daily Star. 2021-02-05. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
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