GMB Akash 

To underline our lives, our awareness, GMB Akash persist to treasure and poke the 'spinal chord' of the world, by transforming suffering into photographs. For him, photography is his language to access, to communicate, to identify and mostly to make injustice and suffering to be heard. Through photography he only jot down his heart's language. The best part about being a photographer for him is that he is able to articulate the experiences of the voiceless and to bring their identities to the forefront which gives meaning and purpose to his own life.
As a multimedia Journalist, he has traveled intensively in 50 countries and received more than100 international awards and his work has been featured in over 100 major international publications including:: National Geographic, Vogue,Time, Sunday Times, Newsweek, Geo, Stern, Der Spiegel, The Fader, 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. In 2002 he became the first Bangladeshi to be selected for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in the Netherlands. In 2004 he received the Young Reporters Award from the Scope Photo Festival in Paris - once again, the first Bangladeshi to receive this honour. In 2005 he was awarded "Best of Show" at the Center for Fine Art Photography's international competition in Colorado, USA. And in 2006 he was awarded World Press Photo award and released my premier book "First Light". In 2007 he became the first Bangladeshi to be selected for the 30 Emerging Photographers (PDN 30), sponsored by Photo District News Magazine, USA. I won the 7th Vevey International Photography Grant from Switzerland in 2009 and in the same year, he took home the international 'Travel photographer of the Year" title at the International Travel Photographer of the Year Competition (TPOY 2009) in the UK, the most prestigious award in travel photography. He was one of the speakers in the fifth Global Investigative Journalism Conference, held at Lillehammer, Norway in 2008 and as well He was the first Bangladeshi in Ted talk at TEDxOporto 2011, in Portugal. He was one of the speaker of "7th Forum of Emerging Leaders in Asian Journalism", Yogyakarta / Indonesia". In 2011 Nikon has selected his as one of the 8 influencers in Asia pacific (APAC region). In 2012 he has published his second book 'Survivors' my 10 years long term work which has reviewed by Prestigious Geo Magazine, worldwide. Presented his work as one of the speaker on Unicef dutch television in Unicef Night in 2012. He was the note speaker at the conference "The power of pictures" in Germany, March 2013. He attended as one of the Speakers in the momentous conference of Media Trends 2013 at Webster University Geneva.