Shehzad Noorani
Location: , Bangladesh
Member Since: Feb 12, 2015
Shehzad is a professional freelance photographer from Pakistan. He has worked as a freelance documentary photographer with a special focus on social issues since 1987, covering major crisis situations resulting from wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan and Uganda and natural calamities in Sri Lanka (tsunami), Iran (Bam earthquake) and Bangladesh (flood 1988 and 1998 and cyclone 1991 and 1993).
He has also covered assignments in Cambodia, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Tajikistan, Thailand, Syria, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and Zambia. He has carried out numerous assignments including ‘Changing Realities of HIV/AIDS, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand’ for UNICEF & UNAIDS.
His work has won him the following awards –
The Motherjones International Award for Documentary Photography (Fifty Crows), 2000,
National Geography - All Roads Photography Program, 2005 - Honorable Mention,
UNICEF Photographer of the Year 2006 - 2nd Place and was Selected for
Moving Wall 15, by Open Society Institute, Soros Foundation, 2008