GMB Akash is a Bangladeshi Documentary Photographer. He born in 1977. Akash works as a photographer for Panos Pictures, United Kingdom and founded the First Light Institute of Photography in Narayanganj, Bangladesh in August, 2013
Awards
2014, one of ten finalists in Lugano Photo Days contest, Switzerland
2010, CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year, Quality of Life winner
2009, Travel Photographer of the Year winner
2007, UNICEF Photos of the Year, 2nd place.
2005, “Best of Show” award from the Center for Fine Art Photography, Colorado, US
2004, Young Reporters Award, The Scope Photo Festival in Paris
2002, World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass, the Netherlands
2002, third place, Press Foundation of Asia, Bangladesh Chapter, photo contest
