Babak Fakhamzadeh

Babak Fakhamzadeh

Co-founder of walk · listen · create
(Netherlands / Iran / Brazil)

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.

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  • Walking Piece SWS20

    Unseen Soundwalks: Warsaw Rising ’44

    John Beauchamp
    · Since 2020
  • We are unable to retrieve this heart.
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  • Walking Piece SWS20

    Drifting Through Bodies and Auguring Spaces: Terminalian Drift

    · Since 2020
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  • Walking Event

    Unseen Soundwalks: Warsaw Rising ’44 Bike Tour

    John Beauchamp
    · Adam Mickiew... · 2020-07-25 09:30
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  • Walking Event SWS20

    The sound of Silence – a journey through awareness into consciousness and creativity

    Mel Sutton
    · 7 - 13 Sep, 2020
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  • Walking Event

    4th world congress of Psychogeography

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 4wcop · 4 - 6 Sep, 2020
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  • Walking Event

    World Listening Day 2020: The Collective Field

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · worldlisteni... · 18 Jul, 2020 · All day
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  • walk · listen · café

    Online meetup with Ioannis Ziogas: “A Topos of Return: Prespa”

    Yannis Ziogas
    Geert Vermeire
    · 2020-07-21 18:00
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  • Walking Event

    Audiowalk Award 2020: And the winners are…

    Ruben Kurschat
    · soundmarker.de · 2020-06-24 20:00
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  • Walking Event

    Sound Walk Land

    Ruben Kurschat
    · Deutschlandf... · 2020-06-23 22:03
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  • walk · listen · café

    Online meetup: Helen Mirra on ‘walking only’

    Helen Mirra
    Geert Vermeire
    · 2020-06-09 18:00
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  • walk · listen · café

    Online meetup: Jez Hastings on ‘Be More Mountain’

    Jez Hastings
    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 2020-07-07 18:00
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  • walk · listen · café

    Online meetup: Nick Hunt on ‘long journeys in short distances’

    Nick Hunt
    Andrew Stuck
    · 2020-06-23 18:00
  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • Walking Piece SWS20

    The Texture of Air

    · Since 2020
  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • Walking Event

    Behind The Seens

    Tamsin Grainger
    · Tamsin Grain... · 24 May, 2020 · All day
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  • Walking Piece

    Hidden Florence

    · Hidden Florence · Since 2016
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  • Walking Piece SWS20

    “Easter Sound-day” Spring Treasure Hunt

    Ed Coulson
    · Since 2020
  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • walk · listen · café

    Online meetup: Tracey Benson on ‘Eco-activism’

    Geert Vermeire
    · walk · list... · 2020-05-12 19:00
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  • Walking Piece

    The periphery of Birkenau

    · Since 2020
  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • walk · listen · café

    Online meetup: Viv Corringham on ‘Listening with the Feet’

    Viv Corringham
    Geert Vermeire
    · 2020-05-26 18:00