Mohammad Rakibul Hasan

Hasan was awarded the Lucie Awards Discovery of the Year 2018. He also received the 23rd Human Rights Press Awards for his series "The Looted Honor" on rape survivors of Rohingya Refugee from The Foreign Correspondents’ Club Hong Kong, Amnesty International and the Hong Kong Journalists Association that recognizes top reporting on Asian news.

He is the admin of Bangladeshi Photographers (BP) photography community, which he created in 2005.

Hasan was introduced to photography whilst studying Film & Video Production at UBS Film School (Sydney Film School) at the University of Sydney, Australia in 2003. His interest in photography led him to become a professional photographer when he returned to Bangladesh. Hasan was granted a full scholarship from the World Press Photo (WPP) in the Netherlands to study a Postgraduate Diploma in Photojournalism at Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines in 2011 to 2012. He studied a Certificate of Higher Education in History of Art at the University of Oxford as a part-time student from 2015 to 2017. He was inspired by the work of David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Demand, Thomas Ruff, Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman and Man Ray.

Mohammad Rakibul Hasan (Bengali: মোহাম্মাদ রকিবুল হাসান , born 1977), also known as M R Hasan is a Bangladeshi documentary photographer, photojournalist, filmmaker and visual artist. He has made black and white photographs about climate change, political violence and the Rohingya refugee crisis. He has also been practicing fine art photography and digital art since many years.