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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    Seeking tranquillity

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    Richard Bentley
    · 2020-09-24 18:00
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    Sounds of the Forest: A Free Audio Archive Gathers the Sounds of Forests from All Over the World | Open Culture

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 12 Sep, 2020
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    Walking slowly while recording the unseen

    Andrew Stuck
    Jeremy Evans
    John Beauchamp
    Martin Eccles
    · 2020-09-17 18:00
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    The spaces between the words – Practices of locative literature

    Geert Vermeire
    Andrew Stuck
    Stefaan van Biesen
    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    Elspeth Penfold
    Lucy Jeffery
    · 2020-09-25 18:00
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    The spaces between the words – Practices of locative literature

    Geert Vermeire
    Andrew Stuck
    Stefaan van Biesen
    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    Elspeth Penfold
    Lucy Jeffery
    · 2020-09-25 18:00
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    Here and there

    Geert Vermeire
    NG Bristow
    Fred Adam
    Richard Shannon
    Ricardo Climent
    · 2020-09-23 18:00
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    Walking beyond borders – walking arts before and after the pandemic. Between Prespes 2019 and 2021.

    Geert Vermeire
    Yannis Ziogas
    Clara Gari
    Lydia Matthews
    Natacha Moutinho
    · 2020-09-20 18:00
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    Sound as an art form; in conversation with Viv Corringham

    Viv Corringham
    · 2020-09-09 19:00
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    A morning meander close to the beach in Santos

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 7 Sep, 2020
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    Facebook Highlights Audio as a Key Part of its AR Glasses Plans

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 5 Sep, 2020
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    A New Poetics of Space: Literary Walks in times of Pandemics and Climate Change

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 4 Sep, 2020
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