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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  • Curated news

    Walk With Me: A Performance Artist Adapts to the Pandemic

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 29 Jan, 2021
  • Curated news

    The Beginner’s Guide To Walking For Fitness – HomeGym101

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 28 Jan, 2021
  • Post

    SWS20: Winners’ reactions

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 28 Jan, 2021
  • Curated news

    Walking with Dolly | TechCrunch

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 26 Jan, 2021
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    Covert – Triarchy Press

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 25 Jan, 2021
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    The joy of steps: 20 ways to give purpose to your daily walk | Life and style | The Guardian

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 18 Jan, 2021
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    Artist-in-Residence at Canaveral National Seashore – Atlantic Center for the Arts

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 18 Jan, 2021
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    ‘It beats aimless walking’: Mechelen’s streets become covid art gallery

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 17 Jan, 2021
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    A walking tour of east London’s best public art | National Geographic

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 17 Jan, 2021
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    Xbox Series X: 3D Spatial Sound – “Walking in Steve’s Dreams”

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 16 Jan, 2021
  • Post SWS20

    Sound Walk September 2020 Awards winners and honourable mentions

    Josh Kopeček
    Julie Poitras Santos
    Hamish Sewell
    Maja Thomas
    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    Andrew Stuck
    Geert Vermeire
    · 14 Jan, 2021
  • Post

    Get commissioned a series of sound walks for nearly 80000 pounds

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 8 Jan, 2021
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    Disabled teen raises money for exoskeleton with Ebru art: ‘My dream is to learn to walk’

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 5 Jan, 2021
  • Post

    New year, new site

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 3 Jan, 2021
  • Curated news

    Street Artists Around the World Captured a Turbulent Year in Real Time—See the Beautiful and Unforgettable Works of 2020 Here | artnet News

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 3 Jan, 2021
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    ‘Voyeur’ Theatrical Walking Tour Transforms New York City Into 1899 Paris

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 25 Dec, 2020
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    Running Artfully Network – Artist Call Out – Fermynwoods Contemporary Art

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 17 Dec, 2020
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    KISS II Microfest: Psychogeography in Kunming – WenLan

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 14 Dec, 2020
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    A New “Soundwalk” Takes Listeners on a Story-Laced Tour of Mount Tabor | Portland Monthly

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 11 Dec, 2020
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    Soundwalk series turns Portland’s parks into audio art galleries – OPB

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 10 Dec, 2020