Shehzad Noorani
Documentary Photographer
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Shehzad has deep interest in social issues that affect lives of millions of people in developing countries. He has covered major stories resulting from men-made and natural disasters in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Other assignments for agencies like UNICEF have taken me to over 30 countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

His personal in-depth documentary work has been extensively exhibited and featured in major international magazines and publications around the world. Daughters of Darkness, his in-depth documentary on the lives of commercial sex workers in South Asia has received Mother Jones International Award for Documentary Photographer. He has also received honorable mention by the National Geography’s All Roads Photography Program for his documentary The Children of Black Dust.


Publications & Clients:
Geo Magazine, Newsweek, New York Times, Le Monde, Marie Claire, Independent (UK), New Internationalist, The Guardian, International Herald Tribune, British Journal of Photography, BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC), Internazionale (Italy), UNICEF, UNFPA, UNAIDS, WHO, WFP, The World Bank, Amnesty International, Johns Hopkins University, The Aga Khan Foundation, Safe the Children Fund, . . .
River Bleeds Black
River Bleeds Black © Shehzad Noorani 2007
A young girl sits on broken wall inside an informal glue factory where workers process waste leathers to make glue in Hazaribagh area near Buriganga... [more]
Images of child prostitution and commercial sex workers in South Asia.
Daughters of Darkness
© Shehzad Noorani 2007
Both smiling, a commercial sex worker kisses another on the... [more]
Children of Black Dust
Children of Black Dust
© Shehzad Noorani 2008
A woman holds her child, blackened by carbon dust. His nose... [more]
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