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'''Pavel Rahman''' is a Bangladeshi photographer and Ekushey Padak award recipient.

== Early life ==
Rahman was born on 26 April 1956 in Rangpur, East Pakistan, Pakistan.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Pavel Rahman|url=http://pavelrahman.com/about.htm|access-date=2021-04-13|website=pavelrahman.com}}</ref>

== Career ==
Rahman joined the weekly Akota in 1973 as a photographer. From 1976 to 1980, he worked as a photographer in ''[[The Sangbad]]''. From 1980 to 1993 he worked at [[The New Nation (Bangladesh)|The New Nation]].<ref name=":0" /> In 1983, he took an iconic [[photograph]] of the back of [[Noor Hossain]], which read "Gonotontra mukti pak" ("Let democracy be freed"), during protests against military dictator [[Hussain Muhammad Ershad|Hussain Mohammad Ershad]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-12-06|title=Noor Hossain and the image that helped bring down a dictator|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55177686|access-date=2021-04-13}}</ref>

In 1993, he joined the Banglabazar Patrika as the Photo Editor. He joined the ''[[Janakantha]]'' in 1994 and worked their till 1997. He joined the [[Associated Press]] as a photographer and is the photography adviser of the daily [[Prothom Alo]].<ref name=":0" /> In 2008, he won the [[Pictures of the Year International]] award, one of seven winners from the Associated Press.<ref>{{Cite web|title=AP's Pavel Rahman wins Picture of the Year award|url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2008/03/19/ap-s-pavel-rahman-wins-picture-of-the-year-award|access-date=2021-04-13|website=bdnews24.com}}</ref>

Rahman held a three-day solo exhibition on [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]] at Rangpur Zilla School in March 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Logic|title="Pavel preserves true history in Bangabandhu’s pictures" {{!}} Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)|url=http://www.bssnews.net/?p=182617|access-date=2021-04-13|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2021, he was awarded the Ekushey Padak for photography.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-02-05|title=21 eminent personalities get Ekushey Padak|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/news/21-eminent-personalities-get-ekushey-padak-2039709|access-date=2021-04-13|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Ekushey Padak]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi photographers]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi photojournalists]]
[[Category:People from Rangpur District]]
[[Category:Associated Press photographers]]

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