Abir Abdullah

About:

Abir Abdullah studied at the Bangladesh Photographic Institute and at the Patshala South East Asian Academy where he took his diploma in photojournalism and where now he is collaborating too. He followed up completing the three-year seminar “Pleasure of Life“ supported by the World Press Photo.
Abir worked as a freelance and as a staff photographer for the Drik Picture Library for several years.

Achievements & Awards:

Abir’s pictures have been exhibited in Europe, South America, Asia and U.S. His work has been published by The New York Times, the Der Spiegel, The Guardian, the Newsweek, the New Internationalist, the Stern, the Geo-France, the International Herald Tribune and the Asiaweek.

Among many awards and prizes are winning the 2001 Phaidon 55 photography competition, the first prize in South Asian Journalists' Association Photo Awards and the Asian Press Photo Contest.