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Biography

K M Asad is a documentary photographer and photojournalist. He 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. In 2008 he graduated from ‘Pathshala’ - The South Asian Institute of Photography - where he had studied photojournalism. Covering the aftermath of Cyclone Sidr in 2007 deeply affected the then-young photographer and he was determined to dedicate his life to documentary photography. Since 2012 he has been following the Rohingya refugees crisis - one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the present day. A photograph of his detailed coverage of the crisis on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border featured on the cover of the August 2019 issue of National Geographic Magazine and his work is also in the permanent collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMOPA) in Japan. Asad has also worked on extensive documentations of the collapse of the Bangladeshi garment factory Rana Plaza in 2013, titled “Cost of Slavery”, and the consequences of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal in 2015. By means of photography, he is determined to document and draw attention to contemporary social and environmental challenges and their impacts on humanity, humanitarian disasters, and the evolving effects of climate change. Asad has received numerous honors and awards such as the World Press Photo Award, UNICEF Picture Of the Year, the China International Press Photo (CHIPP) Award, Picture of the Year International (POYI), the Days Japan International Photojournalism Award, the New York Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Award, and the Lucie Award (IPA). As well as working independently, Asad is a Zuma Press contractor, a Getty Images contributor, and 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 Misereor. His works have been published widely, among others in Time Magazine, New York Times, National Geographic Magazine, La Stampa, CNN, VICE, The Telegraph, BBC, The Guardian, Amnesty International, International Business Times, Human Rights Watch, ABC News, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal.

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  Sheikh Hasina, 76, fled the country by helicopter for neighbouring India this month as huge crowds demanding an end to her rule marched on her palace

  By K M Asad

  Aug. 30, 2024

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  Sheikh Hasina, 76, fled the country by helicopter for neighbouring India this month as huge crowds demanding an end to her rule marched on her palace

  By K M Asad

  Aug. 30, 2024

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  With Hasina gone in Bangladesh, a rival family tastes power

  By Arunabh Saikia, K M Asad, Farjana K. Godhuly, Munir Uz Zaman

  Aug. 30, 2024

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