Jashim Salam (born 1978) is a Bangladeshi documentary photographer and photojournalist.
Salam graduated in photography from Pathshala the south Asian institute of photography and media academy. He has been teaching, mentoring photography in workshops and seminars for aspiring young photographers regularly and has also been on the jury boards of numerous photography contests in Bangladesh. Social photo-documentary, portraits are among his interests. He started his photographic career with DrikNEWS agency. He worked for New Age an English daily of Bangladesh, Drik picture agency, Majority world, Nur photo agency, and Corbis images.
His work has been featured in the exhibitions and screening worldwide, including Visa Pour l'Image, in Perpignan, The Photoville festival in New York, Atrium of the Town Hall, The Hague, Netherlands, Maison familiale Pro Juventute, Geneva, The Getty Images Gallery, London, Gallery of the French Alliance Foundation Paris, France.
Salam's work published extensively in National and international books, magazine, publications, including:
The Sunday Times MagazineLensblog.NY TimesWIREDSPIEGELObserverThe Wall Street JournalThe GuardiansObservers.france24360 Magazine27 eyes on SylhetPhotographs magazineCNNReader's DigestThe Weather ChannelNew InternationalistOne world calendarHelvetasThe Climate CrisisGaruda Indonesia MagazineNational GeographicReutersAPZuma pressSIPA pressPhotojournaleCorbis images2nd place, mosco foto festival,20142nd spotlight fotovisura grant, 2013 Grand prize IPA street photography award, 20121st prize Gold,3rd Asian Press Photo contest, 2012 1st prize in Emirates photography award, 2011 2nd prize in people and planet contest, 2011Ian Parry scholarship (Commended), 2011 2nd prize people and planet award, 2011YPPA photojournalism award, 2011FCCT photojournalism award, 2011International biodiversity award, 2010Humanity Photo award, 2011Humanity Photo award, 2009Asahi Shimbun- International Photographic Salon of Japan, 2008Visa Pour l'Image 2015, Perpignan, France.Visa Pour l'Image, Perpignan, France.Photoville festival in New York, US.Atrium of the Town Hall, The Hague, Netherlands.Glarus, Switzerland.Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand.United Nations, New York.Zentrum Karl der Grosse, Kirchgasse, Switzerland.HIPA exhibition Dubai, UAE.Maison familiale Pro Juventute, Geneva, Switzerland.Forum de l'Hôtel de Ville, Lausanne, Switzerland.The Getty Images Gallery, London, UK.The National Theatre, Abu Dhabi, UAE.Gallery of the French Alliance Foundation Paris, France.The Gallery of Fine Arts of Uzbekistan.The Rotch Library Gallery at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US.China Folklore Photographic Association (CFPA), Guangzhou, China.