Abul Kalam Azad (photographer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Abul Kalam Azad (photographer)

Indian photographer

Date of Birth: 24-Sep-1964

Place of Birth: Kerala, India

Profession: photographer, photojournalist

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Abul Kalam Azad (born 24 September 1964) is a noted contemporary Indian photographer.
Abul's photographic works are predominantly autobiographical and expose the areas of politics, culture, contemporary history, gender and eroticism.
His works attempts a re-reading of contemporary Indian history – the history in which ordinary people are absent and mainly provided by beautiful images and icons.
Abul's works makes an active intervention in the common illustrative discourse of this history.
Using the same tool, photography, that chisels history out of a block of ‘real’ human experiences, Abul makes a parody of it.
'Overall, the corpus of Azad's work can be seen to have a thrust towards an archive of local micro-history at the level of personal memory and in that sense, his works add up to a kind of social anthropology of his land and its people, though not necessarily in the line of tradition of the objective documentary'.
Abul Kalam Azad is the visionary behind EtP Ekalokam Trust for Photography, a Trust dedicated to preserving and promoting contemporary Photography.
He is also the Director of Project 365, a public photo art project that collectively creates and preserves photographic visuals of the fast changing culture and lifestyle of ancient Tamilakam.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of Photo Mail online magazine.