Saiful Huq Omi

About:

Saiful Huq Omi is a documentary photographer particularly committed to social and political issues. Saiful studied telecoms engineering and then took his diploma in photojournalism at Patshala, the South East Asian Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh. In 2010 he participated in the Joob Swart Masterclass. To him photography is a way to change minds and to spread consciousness about social issues and global concerns. He firmly believes in the importance of telling a story from the inside “in his own way” as he said. This is what he expresses through his photography, a way of telling about Bangladesh from Bangladeshi eyes.

Achievements & Awards:

Saiful has received a number of awards, including the All Roads National Geographic Award, and an emerging photographer’s grant from the Open Society Institute. His works have been published in Newsweek, Foto File USA, New York Times, New Internationalist, Time Magazine, The Guardian, The Economists ,Days Japan and Asian Photography and in the Arab News and in BBC.