Siddhesh Joshi (Editor)

Jashim Salam

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Nationality
  
Bangladeshi

Education
  
Drik Picture Library

Name
  
Jashim Salam


Website
  
jashimsalam.com

Occupation
  
Photojournalist

Born
  
1978
Chittagong, Bangladesh

Known for
  
Documentary photography

Darkroom jashim salam


Jashim Salam (born 1978) is a Bangladeshi documentary photographer and photojournalist.

Contents

Biography

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.

Publications

Salam's work published extensively in National and international books, magazine, publications, including:

  • The Sunday Times Magazine
  • Lensblog.NY Times
  • WIRED
  • SPIEGEL
  • Observer
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • The Guardians
  • Observers.france24
  • 360 Magazine
  • 27 eyes on Sylhet
  • Photographs magazine
  • CNN
  • Reader's Digest
  • The Weather Channel
  • New Internationalist
  • One world calendar
  • Helvetas
  • The Climate Crisis
  • Garuda Indonesia Magazine
  • National Geographic
  • Reuters
  • AP
  • Zuma press
  • SIPA press
  • Photojournale
  • Corbis images
  • Awards

  • 2nd place, mosco foto festival,2014
  • 2nd spotlight fotovisura grant, 2013
  • Grand prize IPA street photography award, 2012
  • 1st prize Gold,3rd Asian Press Photo contest, 2012
  • 1st prize in Emirates photography award, 2011
  • 2nd prize in people and planet contest, 2011
  • Ian Parry scholarship (Commended), 2011
  • 2nd prize people and planet award, 2011
  • YPPA photojournalism award, 2011
  • FCCT photojournalism award, 2011
  • International biodiversity award, 2010
  • Humanity Photo award, 2011
  • Humanity Photo award, 2009
  • Asahi Shimbun- International Photographic Salon of Japan, 2008
  • Exhibition

  • Visa 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.
  • References

    Jashim Salam Wikipedia