Farhana Satu devotes as a Photojournalist and documentary photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She attended University of London (UK) for her LLB-Hons and Pathshala South Asian Media Institute (Bangladesh) and Danish School of Media and Journalism (Denmark) for her Diploma in Professional Photography.
Her work focuses to bring stories to light which might have been overlooked or taken for granted by the casual witnesses. She is well-versed in developing relationship with her subjects of photograph to understand and connect in more humanely presence.
Farhana’s photos have been widely published and featured in various online and printed publications both national and internationally, including The Guardian, British journal of Photography, Fast forward women in photography, Photo fem, The daily star, The Prothom Alo, etc. She participated in various photo festivals, exhibitions and workshops, such as DOK19 (Norway), Angkor Photo Fest (Cambodia), OUC- Photojournalism and reportage (China), Doing Visual Politics (Nepal) Bridging the Naf (Myanmar) Heat (Jordan) etc. Recently She had two solo exhibitions at Dhaka Shilpokola Academy, Bangladesh.
Farhana’s photo series “The city of enhancement” has archived as the permeant collection of National Gallery of Victoria Australia.
Farhana also works as a co-curator at Angkor photo festival and workshop, Cambodia.
She achieved lots of prestigious national and international awards and grants. Such as Fritt Ord Student Grant, Women photograph and Getty image grant, Covid19 emergency Grant, Angkor Creation grant etc. She was the champion of Break the Circle award, SUPA, Sony Alpha Out of the box award, IPA etc. She became finalist for Alexia grant twice and PH museum women photograph.
Recently she became the winner of Magnum Heat Fellowship and Grant 2023 and also, she was showing her photo story in NGV Triennial 2024, at National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.