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Shafiur Rahman | |
|---|---|
| Born | Narayanganj, Bangladesh |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Journalist · Documentary filmmaker · Photographer |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Notable work | "Tula Toli: Testimonies of a Massacre" (2018)" Made in Italy (2014) |
Shafiur Rahman is a British-Bangladeshi journalist, documentary filmmaker and photo-story producer whose work centres on labour rights, migration and the Rohingya refugee crisis in South and South-East Asia.[1]
His reporting and commentary have appeared in The Guardian, South-East Asia Globe, Dhaka Tribune, The Diplomat, The Washington Post and DVB English, and he is the founder-editor of the newsletter Rohingya Refugee News.[2]
Career
[edit]Documentary and investigative work
[edit]Rahman’s first screen credits were with Bangladeshi director Tanvir Mokammel. He was co-producer of Swapnabhumi (The Promised Land, 2007), a documentary on the plight of Bihari Muslims in Bangladesh that was screened at the Bahrain International Film Festival.[3]
He served as executive producer on the Spain–Bangladesh short Tres tristes tigres (Three Sad Tigers, 2010), following migrant workers in Dubai; the 14-minute film screened at more than thirty international festivals and won Best Documentary Short at Secuencia Cero.[4]
Rahman gained wider European notice with the undercover RAI 3 exposé Made in Italy (2014), which documented child labour in Benetton’s supply chain; the film later won the Premio Pietro Di Donato (2015) and the Aretè social-documentary prize (2014).[5]
In 2011 he directed Street Art and Reality in London, exploring homelessness through graffiti; the short was profiled by HuffPost.[6][7]
Rahman released Tula Toli: Testimonies of a Massacre in 2017, arguing that killings in Tula Toli had been pre-planned; he discussed the evidence on BBC World Service programme Newshour.[8] A CNN investigation later cited his footage.[9]
On 25 August 2018 he curated a screening of the film for Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day at the London International Documentary Festival.[10] In 2019 Amnesty International’s Ely Group hosted an Amnesty Talks screening.[11]
Photo-essays, exhibitions and visual storytelling
[edit]Between 2020 and 2024 Rahman produced a series of reports from the controversial Bhasan Char relocation island, including the Guardian photo essay “There is no noise”.[12]
His photographs of hazardous ship-breaking yards in Chittagong were first published in a 2016 Danwatch investigation,[13] and were later reproduced by Danish newspapers Berlingske and Politiken when those outlets exposed the illegal dismantling of former Maersk vessels in Bangladesh.[14][15]
He also produced a mural-led memory project in Soweto, commissioning British street artist Ben Slow to create a four-metre portrait of anti-apartheid activist Ruth First; The Star (Johannesburg) covered the unveiling and credited Rahman as producer.[16]
His photography work with Rohingya youth was analysed by anthropologist Mara Matta in “Shooting Back”.[17]
In May 2025 he presented the exhibition Oltre il confine è la mia casa (Beyond the Border Is My Home) as part of the visual-arts programme of the interdisciplinary festival Narni Città Teatro in Umbria.[18][19][20]
Earlier, in March 2021, he showcased winning images from his Rohingya photography competition at the Oxford Human Rights Festival.[21]
Press freedom and threats
[edit]In June 2024, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported that Rahman had been subjected to online harassment and threats in connection with his reporting on the Rohingya crisis.[22]
Rahman was also recognised by PEN America as a "writer at risk" and highlighted for his effective exile due to ongoing threats.[23]
References
[edit]- ^ "Shafiur Rahman on the Rohingya's endless troubles in Bangladesh". Himal Southasian. 31 March 2025. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ >"UK-based journalist Shafiur alleges targeted harassment from Bangladeshi authorities". Dhaka Tribune. 20 June 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ "Swapnabhumi screened at Bahrain Film Festival". The Daily Star. 7 May 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2025.
- ^ "Cortos 2010 – Tres tristes tigres" (PDF) (in Spanish). Spanish Ministry of Culture. 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ "U.K.-based journalist Shafiur Rahman decries Bangladesh authorities' 'harassment by proxy'". Committee to Protect Journalists. 26 June 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ "Street Art and Reality in London (Video 2011)". IMDb. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ "Homelessness and Poverty Behind Street Art in London". HuffPost. 13 February 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ "Documentary suggests military operation against Rohingya Muslims was pre-planned". BBC World Service. 24 October 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ Wright, Rebecca (12 November 2017). "Accounts of rape, burning children and murder: How a Rohingya massacre unfolded at Tula Toli". CNN. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ "Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day". LIDF. 25 August 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ "Amnesty Talks: Testimonies of a Massacre – Tula Toli". Amnesty UK. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ "'There is no noise': inside the controversial Bhasan Char refugee camp – a photo essay". The Guardian. 11 January 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ A People in the Way of Progress (PDF) (Report). Danwatch. May 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ "Nordea om ophugning i uland: det kan Mærsk gøre bedre". Berlingske (in Danish). 6 May 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ "Ophugning af farligt tidligere Mærsk-skib i Bangladesh var ulovlig – SF vil melde rederiet til politiet". Politiken (in Danish). 27 June 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ "A landmark mural for Struggle heroine First". The Star. Johannesburg. 3 October 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ Matta, Mara (2023). "Shooting Back: Photography and Videomaking as Civic Resistance" (PDF). The COVID-19 Pandemic in Asia and Africa, Vol. I. Sapienza University Press. pp. 129–151. ISBN 978-88-9377-299-0.
- ^ "Narni Città Teatro 2025: il nuovo programma di arti visive". Inside Art (in Italian). 13 May 2025. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ "La mostra «Oltre il confine è la mia casa» a Narni". Vivere Arte (in Italian). 14 May 2025. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ "Beyond the Border Is My Home". ATP Diary (in Italian). 15 May 2025. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ "Oxford Human Rights Festival 2021 – Exhibition talk with Shafiur Rahman". Oxford Human Rights Festival. March 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ^ "U.K.-based journalist Shafiur Rahman decries Bangladesh authorities' 'harassment by proxy'". Committee to Protect Journalists. 26 June 2024. Retrieved 22 May 2025.
- ^ "Shafiur Rahman". PEN America. 2024. Retrieved 22 May 2025.