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Tengku Bahar – Photographer and Photo Editor

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Tengku Bahar, known by his peers as Badris, is a New Delhi-based photographer and photo editor. Time, Newsweek, Le Monde, International Herald Tribune, the New York Times and the Washington Post have published his images.

Following his Visual Anthropology degree from the University of Virginia (USA), Badris photographed for newspapers in Virginia and Texas before pursuing personal projects in northern India.

He covered the December 2004 tsunami in his home country Malaysia for Agence France-Presse (AFP) and a year later was promoted to chief photographer in the capital Kuala Lumpur.

He currently edits on the AFP South Asia Photo Desk, overseeing production from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives.

Posted in: Personal, PhotoJournalism, Showcase by pixpaadmin on December 20, 2009