Yoonki Kim is a Korean currently living in Bangkok now. He recently sent me a link to a series of images, 70 Rai, made in Bangkok’s Klongtoey slum. The initial images were endearing; the smiles of the sitters radiant despite their surroundings. I was touched when I saw how happy they looked. Perhaps I miss […]
Akash is currently in Germany on a Hamburg Foundation/GEO Magazine scholarship for a year. He has been documenting homeless people on the streets since January this year. He was curious why the homeless exist in a country as rich as Germany.
Akash on his calling:
Once, when I took a picture of a homeless in Hamburg, I […]
Atul Loke is a photojournalist from India. Didn’t manage to find out much about him except that he won an award and a fellowship in 2002. However, he has a website up with some works. Images below are taken from his My Chwal and Aids in India series, both on-going projects that show much potential.
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In 2006, Saiful Huq Omi was given the National Geographic All Roads Photography Project award for his work on the plight of political victims in his home country, Bangladesh.
On his work:
My photos prove how utterly shameless our sympathetic eyes are, how oppurtunistic and dominating are our looks! 11 families, 10 disabled men, 10 diamonds!
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2007 must have been a good year for Akash so far. He garnered first prize at the Gordon Parks Photography Competition for his work on child labor in Bangladesh, first place at the Asia Press Photo contest and was also listed as one of PDN’s 30 photographers to watch.
Accolades aside, his work focuses on social […]
Filipino Manny Librodo’s portrait of a cigarette vendor is extremely captivating. Years of her life condensed and distilled into a single powerful image. Wow.
© Manny Librodo
See more travel and portraiture photos from Manny at Pbase.
Abir Abdullah is a Bangladeshi photojournalist who seems to be able to connect with his subjects on a very personal level. His main interests in photography are in socio-environmental and political issues. He is now working for the European Pressphoto Agency as their Bangladesh correspondent.
© Abir Abdullah - Children in Bangladesh series
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Munem Wasif (b. 1983) is a documentary photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He now works with Drik NEWS as a staff photographer.
He won an “Honorable Mention” in the 2007 All Roads Photography Program by the National Geographic Society, First Prize in the Konkurs Fotografii Prasowej, and Second Prize in the 2007 Polish BZ WBK Press […]
Soosday! Vandy Rattana is a young Cambodian photographer/law student who has exhibited at Noorderlicht Photofest 2006. He belongs to Visual Art Open, an art collective, which aims to expose contemporary Cambodian artists to the world.
© Vandy Rattana
© Vandy Rattana
© Vandy Rattana
In Self-Portrait, Vandy does not appear in any of the photographs himself. Instead, he provides […]
Kim Bien-Hun (b 1974) obtained his BFA at Kyonggi University, Seoul, Korea, in 2000. Since then he has been freelancing in Seoul. He is represented by the Gana Art Gallery.