Gazi Nafis Ahmed
Gazi Nafis Ahmed is a Bangladeshi scholar and artist working with photography and video. Early life and education Ahmed was born in November 1982 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He attended the Bangladesh International Tutorial school. He studied art and design at the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design of London Guildhall University in London and photography at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Denmark. Ahmed was awarded full scholarship by Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid to do Masters of Fine Arts in photography. In 2016, Ahmed was invited as a scholar at The Center for Social Difference at Columbia University. Photography career From 2012 to 2014, he worked at VII Photo Agency, working with John Stanmeyer. Ahmed was awarded at the Pride Photo Award 2015, held at the historic Oude Kerk, Amsterdam. Pride Photo Award is about gender diversity. Ahmed won in the "Stories of Love and Pride" category for his series "Inner Face". In 2013, Ahmed received the Blub Award from Format International Photography Festival in the United Kingdom. He had a solo show at Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts. Ahmed participated at the Mining Warm Data exhibition. It was curated by Diana Campbell