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

    Steps of State Parliament become a canvas to draw on

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 6 Feb, 2021
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  • walk · listen · café

    Working towards a platform that democratises storytelling

    Henna Wang
    Michael Reynolds
    Andrew Stuck
    · 2021-02-23 19:00
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  • walk · listen · café

    Working towards a platform that democratises storytelling

    Henna Wang
    Michael Reynolds
    Andrew Stuck
    · 2021-02-23 19:00
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  • Henna Wang

    Henna Wang

    SWS Grand Jury 2024
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  • Annie Mahtani

    Annie Mahtani

    SWS Advisory Board 2021 SWS Grand Jury 2022 SWS Grand Jury 2023
  • Curated news

    Plans for ‘largest ever art exhibition’ in front windows unveiled – The Irish News

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 29 Jan, 2021
  • Curated news

    Walk With Me: A Performance Artist Adapts to the Pandemic

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 29 Jan, 2021
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    The Beginner’s Guide To Walking For Fitness – HomeGym101

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 28 Jan, 2021
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  • Post

    SWS20: Winners’ reactions

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 28 Jan, 2021
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    SWS20: Winners’ reactions

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 28 Jan, 2021
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  • Walking Event

    Walking Narratives

    Ruben Kurschat
    · https://sono... · 26 - 28 Feb, 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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  • Post

    Touched by sound in Munich

    Mathis Nitschke
    · 19 Feb, 2020
  • Curated news

    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