Bangladeshi photographer Munem Wasif wins Harvard University fellowship

After a world-wide search, Bangladeshi photographer, mixed media artist, curator, and teacher, Munem Wasif has been selected for the 2023 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University.

The fellowship provides a USD 50,000 stipend to begin or complete a proposed project followed by the publication of a book. Munem will use this non-residential fellowship to work on his project "Nil", which is a photographic, archival, and mixed-media project he describes as a "layered narrative about the critical history of indigo in Bengal".

The sixteenth recipient of the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, Munem Wasif is a graduate of Pathshala and started as a photographer for The Daily Star. Wasif's book publications include "Belonging" and "Salt Water Tears". Moreover, together with Tanzim Wahab, he has published two editions of "Kamra", a Bangla-language anthology of essays on photography.

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