Rashid Talukder

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Rashid Talukder
রশীদ তালুকদার
British India
Died25 October 2011(2011-10-25) (aged 72)
Dhaka
, Bangladesh
Resting placeAzimpur Graveyard, Dhaka
NationalityBangladeshi
OccupationPhotojournalist
EmployerThe Daily Ittefaq
Organizationfounder of the Bangladesh Photo Journalists' Association
Known forphotographs of Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971
Children3

Rashid Talukder (24 October 1939 – 25 October 2011)

the genocide during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.[2]

Talukder was a founder of the Bangladesh Photo Journalists' Association. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the

National Geographic magazine.[3]

Early life and education

Born 24 October 1939 in Baj Baj, near Calcutta (now Kolkata) in

British India (now in West Bengal, India).[4] He developed an interest in photography while still at school, and by the time he reached class 8 in 1945, he started working in the darkroom.[2]

Career

Talukdar started his career in 1962, as a press photographer with

Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1972, which appeared in a print as "Death in Dacca".[8]

Talukdar was the founder of the Bangladesh Photo Journalists' Association, and also a member of advisory councils of photographic organisations like Bangladesh Photographic Society.

Chobi Mela, an international photography festival in Dhaka,[2] and in 2010 he became the first Bangladeshi photographer to have won the prestigious "Pioneer Photographer Award", part of the "All Roads Photography Programme" of National Geographic.[10]

List of notable photographs

Personal life

Talukder had a son and two daughters. He died on 25 October 2011 at a Dhaka hospital, after a brief illness at the age of 72. He was buried next to his wife at the Azimpur graveyard in Dhaka.[11]

Exhibitions

References

  1. ^ "Those who passed on…". The Daily Star. 1 January 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d "Rashid Talukder no more". The Daily Star. 26 October 2011.
  3. ^ O'Neill, Claire (30 September 2010). "Spotlight on Rashid Talukder, Pioneering Bangladeshi Photographer". NPR News. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Pioneer Award" (PDF) (PDF). National Geographic. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 January 2011.
  5. ^ "Photographer Rashid Talukder dies". The New Age(Bangladesh). 26 October 2011. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  6. ^ a b "Tribute to Rashid Talukder". The Independent (Bangladesh). 25 October 2012.
  7. ^ Estrin, James (5 December 2012). "Images of Independence, Finally Free". Lens Blog. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Images of Independence, Finally Free". New York Times, Lens. 5 December 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  9. ^ a b "Lensman Rashid Talukder fights for life". bdnews24.com. 21 October 2011. Archived from the original on 23 October 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  10. ^ "Making Bangladesh proud". The Daily Star. 5 July 2010. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  11. ^ "Rashid Talukder dead". The News Today. 26 October 2011.
  12. ^ Fenwick, Andrew (16 September 2008). "PHOTOGRAPHY: Bangladesh 1971". Metro. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  13. ^ "Bangladesh:Where Three Dreams Cross". Right Vision News. 23 January 2010.

External links

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