About Avijit Ghosh
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Avijit Ghosh (b.1993) is a documentary photographer, and a visual storyteller based in Kolkata, India.
His work mostly focuses on the Socio-environmental impacts of climate change and humanitarian issues. Ghosh was born and brought up in a rural village of West Bengal and later, have migrated to a suburb of Kolkata to pursue a bachelor’s degree in arts and a diploma in Social Work as well as in Photography. In 2021, his long-term project The Land of Conflict won Joan Guerrero Photo Award and was Exhibited at Sant Pol Doc Festival.
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He is currently represented by Agentur Focus and a member of Diversify Photo & Fairpicture
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2023, Shortlisted, Environmental stories category
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Global Research Programme on Inequality (GRIP) Grant for the water inequality project
2022, Winner
Hamburg Portfolio Review 2022
2022, Selected Participant
JUAN GUERRERO PHOTO AWARD / Sant Pol Doc Festival
2021, Winner
LensCulture and Margaret McNamara Education Grants Photo Competition
2021, Winner
CLIMATE VISUALS & TED COUNTDOWN
2021, Selected Artist
Nature India Photo Contest
2020, Winner
Mangrove Action Project
2018, Winner
Durham University "Energy" Photo Competition
2018, Winner
UNESCO International Martial Arts Photo Contest 2018, Winner
Ramsar Convention "The Beauty of Wetlands" 2018, Winner
European Commission #noculturenofuture 2018, Winner
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Zoom Photo Festival
La Pulperie de Chicoutimi – Regional museum
Oct 4 - Oct 29, 2023
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Global Research Programme on Inequality (GRIP) Grant for the water inequality project
University of Bergen
June -July 2022
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Sant Pol Doc Festival
Museu de Pintura de Sant Pol de Mar
October 2021
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UNCTAD15 conference Virtual Exhibition
Curated by Lekgetho Makola
October 2021
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UNESCO International Martial Arts Photo Contest Exhibition
Chungju Sports Complex, Republic of Korea
August 2019
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UNESCO SILK ROAD
UNESCO HQ , Paris
2018
IET Engineering & Technology Photographer of the Year 2018
British Science Museum, London
November 2018
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WASTE Aid photo contest Exhibition
National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, UK.
September 2018
Contact & Location
+91 9804761367
mravijitghosh08[at]gmail.com
Kolkata, India.