Probal Rashid

Probal Rashid (প্রবাল রশিদ; born 1979) is a Bangladeshi documentary photographer and photojournalist based in Washington, D.C. He is a contributor photographer at Getty images.

His work has appeared in several magazines and newspapers.

Rashid was born in Gazipur, Bangladesh, in 1979, and grew up there as the rural area urbanized and industrialized.

He completed secondary school and a Bachelor's in Business Administration there.

His middle-class parents wanted him to get a corporate job, so he moved to Dhaka, earned a Master of Business Administration and started an internship with a financial aid company.

He quit his job and in 2007 enrolled in two-year course at Pathshala, a school of photography.

Rashid completed a post Graduation Diploma in photojournalism through a scholarship program of World Press Photo at the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism (ACFJ) at Ateneo De Manila University in the Philippines.

For four years Rashid worked as a photographer at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University.

In 2014, he co-founded Absurd Photos, a co-operative photo agency in Dhaka.

He is represented by American agency Zuma Press.

His work has been included in newspapers, magazines and websites: Burn Magazine, Forbes, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Daily Mirror, and HuffPost.

Probal is the recipient of numerous awards for his work including the Pictures Of the Year International (POYi), Days Japan Photojournalism Award, China International Press Photo Award (CHIPP), NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism Awards, Yonhap International Press Photo Awards, KL International Photo award, FCCT/OnAsia Photojournalism Award, “Zoom-in on Poverty” Global Photo Award, CGAP microfinance photo award, WPGA Annual Pollux Awards in U.K., International Year of Biodiversity Award and the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Contest.