Founder
Marŝarto23 shortlisted
Online Jury 2022
Online Jury 2023
Online Jury 2024
SWS Grand Jury 2023
SWS23 shortlisted
Babak was working in ICT4D before it had a name (2001), and never really left it. Now, he can help you to get lost.
Babak brought photomarathons to Africa (2007) and won the Highway Africa new media award (2007).
He is the only three-time winner of the UN World Summit Awards; in 2012, 2017, and 2021.
In 2016, together with Agência Pública, he won, and was a runner up for, the Prêmio Jornalístico Vladimir Herzog de Anistia e Direitos Humanos. In 2017, he cooperated on work which was nominated for the Gabriel García Márquez award, and the Prêmio Petrobras de Jornalismo.
Babak brought photomarathons to Africa (2007) and won the Highway Africa new media award (2007).
He is the only three-time winner of the UN World Summit Awards; in 2012, 2017, and 2021.
In 2016, together with Agência Pública, he won, and was a runner up for, the Prêmio Jornalístico Vladimir Herzog de Anistia e Direitos Humanos. In 2017, he cooperated on work which was nominated for the Gabriel García Márquez award, and the Prêmio Petrobras de Jornalismo.
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Curated newsNew
‘Thirsty, wet, desolate. The dream’: One Day author David Nicholls on the peculiar pleasure of long, soggy solo walks | Walking | The Guardian
· 13 Apr, 2024 -
Babak FakhamzadehWalking Writers' Salon
Finding a Place: creative-critical wanderings in landscape with Noreen Masud
· 2024-04-10 18:00
Curated newsNewMy hike on the hardest trail in Europe – Corsica’s GR20 | Corsica holidays | The Guardian
· 10 Apr, 2024Curated newsNewA Pembrokeshire coast walk to a warm, welcoming pub | Pembrokeshire holidays | The Guardian
· 8 Apr, 2024Curated newsNew‘I’m a little bit tired’: Briton becomes first person to run the length of Africa | Africa | The Guardian
· 8 Apr, 2024Curated newsNewWalking London’s unsung waterway: the River Lea rises again | London holidays | The Guardian
· 3 Apr, 2024Curated newsNewWalkscapes | University of Groningen Summer Schools | University of Groningen
· 2 Apr, 2024Curated newsNew14 Wonderful Old Words for Walking We Should Bring Back | Mental Floss
· 1 Apr, 2024Babak FakhamzadehCurated newsNewCornwall’s very own Camino: walking the St Michael’s Way | Walking holidays | The Guardian
· 30 Mar, 2024Curated newsNew‘I strolled among lovely Lent lilies, wild garlic and beautiful bluebells’: readers’ favourite spring walks in the UK | Walking holidays | The Guardian
· 29 Mar, 2024Audio about walkingNewThe Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Rolf Potts — The Vagabond’s Way, Tactics for Immersive Travel, Pilgrimages and Psychogeography, Empathy Machines, Full-Throated Love, The Slow Sense of Smell, Lessons from Thích Nhất Hạnh, Falling Upward, and More (#624) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
· 28 Mar, 2024Babak FakhamzadehWalking EventWALC Confluence 1 hosted by Gigacircus with guest, Mohamed-Nour Wana
· Gigacircus · 2024-03-27 18:30
PostNewPORTER UNE MARCHE – PROJET EN COURS – collectif ° Bonneau-Knight ° collective
· 25 Mar, 2024Babak Fakhamzadeh
Annemarie Lopez
