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

    Dealing with the pandemic one step at a time: Practice walking as self-care – Streetsblog Chicago

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 22 Mar, 2020
  • Curated news

    Stuck at Home? You Can Visit These 48 World-Famous Sites From Your Couch For Free

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 22 Mar, 2020
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    The art of walking – The Strand

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 18 Mar, 2020
  • Post SWS20

    Sound Walk September 2020 now accepting submissions

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 16 Mar, 2020
  • Curated news

    Artist Sohei Nishino maps his Everest journey in epic photographic detail

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 13 Mar, 2020
  • Post

    Introducing the Sound Walk September Advisory Board

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 11 Mar, 2020
  • Curated news

    Popular Big Issue vendor Rob is taking on a two-year walking challenge | The Big Issue

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 10 Mar, 2020
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    Fowler Museum’s walking tour aims to engage community with LA religious sphere – Daily Bruin

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 4 Mar, 2020
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    walking through museums – Post-

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 29 Feb, 2020
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    Paris Mayor Pledges a Greener ’15-Minute City’ – CityLab

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 21 Feb, 2020
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    The Artist Walking Between Two Seas in Istanbul

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 20 Feb, 2020
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    Dublin People – Northsiders step up to the plate for Walking Football Festival 2020

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 20 Feb, 2020
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    Empty Foundry Transformed With Projections of 500 19th Century Artworks

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 20 Feb, 2020
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    Radio Art

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 20 Feb, 2020
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    The Art of Resistance: 440 shoes on a public wall highlight the chilling rate of femicide in Turkey

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 9 Feb, 2020
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    99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 2 Feb, 2020
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    Darren Waterston is the artist creating paintings you can physically walk into | British GQ

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 26 Jan, 2020
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    ‘Lucio Fontana. Walking the Space: Spatial Environments, 1948 – 1968’ will be the first comprehensive presentation in the US of the late Italian master’s groundbreaking ‘Ambienti spaziali’ – FAD Magazine

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 23 Jan, 2020
  • Curated news

    Mural Arts Philadelphia Offers Special Street Art Tour for Black History Month

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 21 Jan, 2020
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    How Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm What Philosophers and Writers Have Always Known | Open Culture

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 17 Jan, 2020