Pavel Rahman

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

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]

References
  1. "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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