Saiful Huq Omi

Saiful Huq Omi (Born 1980, Bangladesh) finishes his masters from the Telecommunication Engineering Department, he received his diploma from Pathshala and decided to become a photographer in 2005. He is represented by Polaris Images and He is the contact photographer of New York Times. His works have been published in Newsweek, Foto File USA, New York Times, New Internationalist, Time Magazine, The Guardian, The Economists ,Days Japan and Asian Photography and in the Arab News and in BBC. He has lectured and presented his works and took photography workshops at The London School of Economics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Beaconhouse National University in Pakistan, Danish School of Photojournalism and Columbia University and in many other universities. He has been exhibited in galleries in Zimbabwe, Beirut, Kabul, Nairobi, England, Russia, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Germany, Pakistan, Japan and USA and in the Netherlands. He has published his first book named –“Heroes Never Die- Tales of Political Violence in Bangladesh, 1989-2005”. He has directed the 56 min long documentary- Roaring Kansat on the struggle of people of Kansat, where they demanded uninterrupted electricity, which eventually became one of the largest movement in Bangladesh’s history.