Shehab Uddin is a freelance photographer from Bangladesh, now based in Australia. His interests lie in socio-political documentation, though his work is highly emotive. Shehab graduated from Pathshala South Asian Media Academy in Dhaka, before going on to work there as a tutor. In 2006 he moved to Nepal for a year where he was an assistant lecturer at Kathmandus College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Having worked in Dhaka as a newspaper photographer for The Daily Sangbad for more than eight years, Shehab joined Drik Picture Agency upon his return to Bangladesh in 2005 and was staff photographer and team leader of Driks Photography Department till 2010. Shehabs work has been exhibited internationally and in online galleries. He has won numerous awards such as Project Grant, Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, the Alexia Foundation Professional Grant, and All Roads (Honourable Mention) National Geographic for his project Amarao Manush: Pavement Dwellers as well as, WHO, Asahi Shimbun, IIPC, FIAP, and HPA, etc. His work is preserved in the permanent collection at Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Japan), Dhaka Nagar Jadughar (Dhaka City Museum) and Liberation War Museum (Bangladesh).