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Gazi Nafis Ahmed is a Bangladeshi scholar and artist working with photography.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gazi Nafis Ahmed )〕 He was born in November 1982 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Ahmed comes from the renowned Gazi family, who were one of the Baro Bhuyan(Twelve Zaminders of Bengal) in sixteenth century, from the Bhawal Estate now known as Gazipur in Bangladesh.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gazi Nafis Ahmed, Artist )〕 ==Life and Work== From 2012 to 2014, he was a member of the mentor program at the world’s elite VII Photo Agency, working with his mentor John Stanmeyer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Innate Identities )〕 Nafis did his schooling from Bangladesh International Tutorial, one of the most prominent private schools in Bangladesh. He studied Art & 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.Nafis was awarded full scholarship by the prestigious Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid to do Masters of Fine Arts in Photography. In 2013, Nafis received the Blub Award from (Format International Photography Festival ) in United Kingdom. He is the youngest Bangladeshi artist to have a solo show at the esteemed (Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts ).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Photos: 'Made in Bangladesh' Takes Behind-the-Scenes Look at Garment Workers )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cauldron of creativity: exploring artists' relationship between spaces and memories )〕 His artworks were featured in Dhaka Art Summit, the largest platform for South Asian art, curated by Deepak Ananth. Currently he is conducting Therapeutic Photography workshops for people vulnerable to HIV/AIDS for 12th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP), the largest forum on AIDS held in the Asia and the Pacific region. His work has been exhibited in UK, Spain, China, India and Bangladesh. Some of the organizations he has worked with are International Finance Corporation of World Bank Group, Medicins Sans Frontieres, UNAIDS, UNDP, WFP, Save The Children. His photos have graced the pages of The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Guardian, among others.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Inside Bangladesh's garment factories: life and work in a dangerous industry )〕〔http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/17/magazine/WTWTshagorika.html?_r=0〕 In 2013, Nafis organized the first ever photography forum for the pioneer photographers of Bangladesh called “Evolution of Photography” at the (Edward M Kennedy Center ) in Dhaka, which gave them a platform to share their experiences and discuss untold rich history of photography in the country.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Blog Snacks - Jeff Gantner - Writer )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The garment factories of Bangladesh by Gazi Nafis Ahmed )〕 One of his critically acclaimed serial “Inner Face” 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Body of evidence )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview: Photographer Sheds Light on 'Inner Face' of Bangladesh's Gay Community )〕 addresses the sensitive and precarious issues of human rights of the LGBT community. They convey the subtle sense of challenge in the expressions of the community in a traditional and conservative culture like Bangladesh. The photographs seem to carry that sense of “conquering” social taboos, of trying to become free of the manacles that tie the inborn or acquired identity to social norms.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=INNATE IDENTITIES : Lives of hermaphrodites captured through lens )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=South Asia in focus: 5 curated shows at Dhaka Art Summit 2014 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gazi Nafis Ahmed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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