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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  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • Walking Event SWS20

    Saturday Sunset Sounds: Walk Listen Dream

    Giorgia Micene
    · Giorgia Mice... · 2020-09-05 15:00
  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • Walking Event SWS20

    Sound as an art form; in conversation with Viv Corringham

    Viv Corringham
    · 2020-09-09 19:00
  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • Walking Event SWS20

    Weaving place, deep listening and the Sacred

    Leah Barclay
    Jo Tito
    Michelle Maloney
    Ruth Irwin
    Tracey Cooper
    · 2020-09-21 08:30
  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • Walking Event SWS20

    City Comparatives: The Bridges of Rotterdam

    · 2020-09-20 10:00
  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • Walking Event SWS20

    Un passo indietro sulla via del suono – A step back on the way of sound

    Luca Bocchia
    · 2020-09-26 15:00
  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • Walking Event SWS20

    Listen and walk to One Circuitous Path with creators

    Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone
    · 2020-09-12 16:00
  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • Walking Event SWS20

    Weaving place, deep listening and the Sacred

    Leah Barclay
    Jo Tito
    Michelle Maloney
    Ruth Irwin
    Tracey Cooper
    · 2020-09-21 08:30
  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • walk · listen · café

    Online meet-up: Martin Foessleitner on ‘Waylosing’

    Martin Foessleitner
    Andrew Stuck
    · 2020-08-04 18:00
  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • Walking Piece SWS20

    One Circuitous Path: a retelling of the minotaur myth

    Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone
    · Since 2020
  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • Walking Piece SWS20

    Unseen Soundwalks: Warsaw Rising ’44

    John Beauchamp
    · Since 2020
  • Curated news

    A thousand years of walking through Japan | The Japan Times

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 20 Jul, 2020
  • Curated news

    30 installations to see on Charoen Krung street art walking tour | Coconuts Bangkok

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 20 Jul, 2020
  • Curated news

    Indian artists in Europe share experience of migrant labourers walking home during lockdown | Lifestyle News,The Indian Express

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 20 Jul, 2020
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  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • Walking Piece SWS20

    Drifting Through Bodies and Auguring Spaces: Terminalian Drift

    · Since 2020
  • Curated news

    This Artist Made a Time Machine Using Snapchat’s Spectacles

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 18 Jul, 2020
  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • Curated news

    Iceland is broadcasting the world’s screams to relieve coronavirus stress – CBS News

    Babak Fakhamzadeh
    · 17 Jul, 2020
  • Babak Fakhamzadeh
  • Walking Event

    Unseen Soundwalks: Warsaw Rising ’44 Bike Tour

    John Beauchamp
    · Adam Mickiew... · 2020-07-25 09:30