Salma Abedin Prithi
Photographer
Salma Abedin Prithi’s photographs explore the vulnerability and psychological struggle of general people. After her graduation in photography at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, Prithi started making portrait of ordinary people with performative gestures in her pop-up studio at home. Her work, Mundane, is a combination of tableau-vivant and archival footages of newspapers exploring domestic violence in Bangladesh.
Publication
2020: Bangladeshi photographer Salma Abedin Prithi selected for ‘Joop Swart Masterclass’, Daily Star
2019: Featured on Lens Culture
2019: “After we married, I would ask him, ‘Will you abandon me?’, The California Sunday Magazine
2019: Cameray aken shopner chobi, Prothom Alo
2019: I never planned to be a photographer, Dhaka Tribune
2018: Ones to Watch, British Journal Of Photography
2018: Snapshot special, Financial Times
2016: Poetic Inflection in the Alienation of Object and Seeing, Depart Magazine
2016: A Medium on the Move, Financial Times
2016: Monologues’ of Ordinary People, Depart Magazine
2016: Poetic Inflection in the Alienation of Object and Seeing, Depart Magazine
2015: Dear Love, IPA
2015: Take Pick by Bhavna Kakar, Take on Art
Exhibitions
2021: “Tibro” Group Exhibition, Pathshala South Asian Media Inistitute, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2021: Chobi Mela International Photography Festival, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2020: 4 Women, Group Exhibition, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany
2019: Achli, Group Exhibition, Bangladesh Academy for Fine Arts, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2018: Dear Love, Solo Exhibition, Moncrief Cancer Institute, Texas, USA
2017: Art For Peace, Group Exhibition, Islamabad, Pakistan
2017: Tasher Desh, Group Exhibition, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2017: Focus Photography Festival, Mumbai, India
2017: Chobi Mela International Photography Festival, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2016: Addis Photo Festival, Group Exhibition, Addis, Ethiopia
2016: Dry Run, Solo Exhibition, Kalakendra, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2016: 26th Summer Show, Group Exhibition, Atkinson Gallery, Southwest England
2016: Aminul Islam Young Artist Award, Open Studio, Bengal Foundation Dhaka, Bangladesh
2016: Samdani Art Award, Group Exhibition, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2015: Photo Kathmandu, Digital Slideshow Presentation, Nepal
2013: Senses Seven, Group Exhibition, Dhaka Art Center
2012: Chobi Mela VII, Digital Slideshow, Goethe Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2009: Nari, Group Exhibition, Drik Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2009: Youth, Goethe Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Grant, Award & Fellowship
2021: Shortlisted for C/O Berlin Talent Award
2020: Joop swart masterclass, World Press Photo
2019: Shortlisted for Acumen Fellowship Program
2019: Photography and Social Justice Fellowship, Magnum Foundation
2017: Recipient of Women in Photography, New York (WIPNYC) Grant & Mentor Program
2016: Shortlisted for Aminul Islam Young Artist Award, Bengal Foundation
2015: Shortlisted for Samdani Art Award, Dhaka Art Summit
2015: Nikon Photography Award, Second Prize in Open Theme category
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