Mohammad Rakibul Hasan was born in Bangladesh. He is a Dhaka-based documentary photographer, filmmaker, visual artist, and art educator. His work explores a wide variety of topics and genres of art. Hasan reveals the truth and fiction through his documentary photography practice. He also practices humanitarian film, digital art, and mixed media like photographic appropriation and conceptual photography. Hasan bagged many prestigious awards in photography, such as the Lucie Award, One World Media Award, Human Rights Press Award, Allard Prize, and Sony World Photography Awards (Pro), and around two hundred other awards internationally. He was exhibited in Photo Basel, Shanghai Photo Festival, NordArt Festival, Berlin Photo Festival, Belgrade Photo Month Festival, Indian Photo Festival, and many other galleries worldwide.

Hasan is an avid reader and pursued a Certificate in Creative Practices at the ICP – International Center of Photography (USA), a Postgraduate Certificate in Photography from Falmouth University (UK), and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Photojournalism from the Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines). He also pursued an Undergraduate Certificate in History of Art from the University of Oxford (UK). He graduated in Film & Video Production from UBS Film School at the University of Sydney (Australia). Hasan is an Oxford Climate Journalism Network (OCJN) fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford and was a Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Fellow (Germany), and was a finalist for the Acumen Fellowship 2020.

Hasan is an international consultant photographer, and humanitarian filmmaker for the UN Women, British Red Cross, Oxfam, Action Aid, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Water Aid, World Health Organization (WHO), Danish Refugee Council (DRC), UNHCR, and many other international organizations. He is a guest teacher for photography worldwide. Hasan currently works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation (UK), ZUMA Press (USA), Inter Press Service (IPS) News Agency, and Redux Pictures (USA) as a Visual Journalist (Photo and Video). The °CLAIR Galerie, Switzerland, represents his artworks, and also he is a full member of the Diversify Photo. He was a former TEDx speaker.

Hasan is pursuing two-degree programs via distance learning: a part-time MA in Global Film and Television at Hertfordshire University and a BA (Honors) in Photography (Final Year) at Falmouth University, UK.

He was invited in Global Artist Committee of Asian Art Association in July 2022 and be judge of "Asian Press Photo 2023"

Philosophy is the key that unlocks the art world. The real world, where I belong, fuels me to create new ideas, thoughts, and concepts through images. I practice photographic genres including conventional, surrealism, conceptual, Nouveau Réalisme, postmodernism, contemporary, and appropriation. I feel concerned about telling stories, context, and transcendence of myself on earth, producing artworks or documentaries with sensitivity, humanity, and dignity.

Photography is an instant observational visual art and expression that can be done passively by constructing a whole cinematic set or using found images. I have been photography to express my inner self and the outer world for the last seventeen years. I convey my messages to the onlookers through my photographs and photographic artworks. The way of photographing anything changes because of the arrival of new technologies – I, as a practitioner, regularly explore other photographers’ and artists’ works and even contemporary philosophy, the technological advancements, upcoming technological possibilities or forecasts, and the dynamics of global societies – all are interconnected to my work. I get inspiration from what is happening in the world around me and historical references.

Apart from my visual creations, I write poetry and prose to find solitude in the soul and reform the soul, similarly to creating visual art. I believe in ecocentrism, which pushes me to think about other species that coexist with us.

Consultant Filmmaker/Photographer for the Red Cross Red Crescent Magazine (RCRC Magazine), Switzerland
Duration: January 2022 to till

Consultant Filmmaker/Photographer for the British Red Cross (BRC), U.K.
Duration: June 2021 to till

Consultant Filmmaker/Photographer for the Action Against Hunger, UK
Duration: May 2021 to till

Consultant Filmmaker for the ChristianAid, UK
Duration: March 2021 to till

Consultant Filmmaker for the Leprosy Mission, U.K.
Duration: May 2021 to till

Consultant Filmmaker/Photographer at The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Bangladesh, Red Cross Canada, and Norway
Duration: October 2020 to till

Consultant Filmmaker at United Nations High Commissioners for Refugees (UNHCR), Bangladesh
Duration: May 2020 to Present

Consultant Filmmaker at World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva
Duration: June 2020 to Present

Consultant Photographer/Filmmaker at ActionAid G.B.
Duration: June 2020 to Present

Consultant Photographer/Filmmaker at Oxfam G.B.
Duration: February 2020 to Present

Consultant Photographer & Documentary Filmmaker at United Nations Women (U.N. Women) Thailand (Regional Office)
Duration: September 2019 to Present

Photojournalist at Zuma Press, USA
Duration: October 2018 to Present

Consultant Photographer at United Nations Women (U.N. Women) Bangladesh
Duration: October 2018 to Present

Consultant Photographer at WaterAid Bangladesh
Duration: September 2018 to Present

Contract Photographer at Reuters Foundation, U.K.
Duration: June 2018 to Present

Consultant Photographer at USAID’s Agricultural Value Chain (AVC) of DAI, Bangladesh
Duration: August 2018 to Present

Short Term Employee at World Bank, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Duration: January 2018 to April 2018

Contract Photographer/ Director of Photography
Duration: August 2016 to Present

Co-founder & Managing Director – Absurd Photos Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Duration: April 2015 to Present

Director of Photography – Box Office Multimedia Limited, Bangladesh
Duration: June 2016 to Present

Photographer/Photojournalist – Redux Pictures, New York, USA
Duration: April 2015 to Present

Contract Photographer – UNDP, Bangladesh
Duration: May 2015 to Present

Contract Photographer – ICRC, Philippines
Duration: May 2014 to Present

Contract Photographer – Asian Development Bank (ADB), Bangladesh
Duration: May 2014 to Present

Photojournalist – Falcon Photo Agency, Australia
Duration: May 2011 to Present

Contributing Photojournalist – The Daily Star, Bangladesh
Duration: November 2008 to Present

Contributing Photojournalist – Water Wide Web, www.waterwideweb.org USA
Duration: December 2010 to January 2013

Contributing Photojournalist – the Ecologist, www.theecologist.org U.K.
Duration: December 2011 to March 2013

Freelance Photojournalist – The Daily Jugantor, Bangladesh
Duration: June 2006 to 2012

Photo Contributor – Getty Images, USA
Duration: August 2009 to 2013

Contract Photographer – Grey Advertising Limited, Bangladesh
Duration: March 2005 to Present

Contributing Photojournalist – Tag Magazine, USA
Duration: July 2009 to Present

Consultant (Photography and Documentary Film Project) – Jogi Motion Studio, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Duration: 2009 to Present

Chief Photographer – Image Bank Photo Agency, Bangladesh
Duration: April 2007 to December 2009