Rashid Talukdar
| Rashid Talukder | |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 October 1939 Baj Baj, Pargana, British India |
| Died | 25 October 2011 (aged 72) Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Resting place | Azimpur Graveyard, Dhaka |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Occupation | Photojournalist |
| Employer | The Daily Ittefaq |
| Organization | founder of the Bangladesh Photo Journalists' Association |
| Known for | photographs of Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 |
| Children | one son and two daughters |
Rashid Talukder (Bengali: রশীদ তালুকদার; 24 October 1939 – 25 October 2011) was a noted Bangladeshi photojournalist for The Daily Ittefaq, most known for capturing some of the defining images of the atrocities during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.
Talukder was a founder of the Bangladesh Photo Journalists' Association. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Chobi Mela, an international photography festival in Dhaka, in 2006, and the 2010 the 'Pioneer Photographer Award' given by National Geographic magazine.
Born 24 October 1939 in Baj Baj, near Calcutta (now Kolkata) in Pargana (now 24 Parganas), British India (now in West Bengal, India). He developed an interest in photography while still at school, and by the time he reached class 8 in 1945, he started working in the darkroom.
Talukdar started his career in 1962, as a press photographer with The Sangbad in Dhaka, Bangladesh. After working here for a few years, he joined The Daily Ittefaq, where he worked for 29 years as a photojournalist and during his career he most notably shot the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 against Pakistan and the photograph of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivering his historic speech on 7 March 1971. As he feared for his safety, many of his photographs were not published until 1993 when he was approached by The Daily Star. Few photographers were able to film and publish an account of the events. Outside of Bangladesh, Horst Faas and Michel Laurent of the Associated Press won a Pulitzer Prize for best spot news photography in 1972, which appeared in a print as "Death in Dacca".
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