ABOUT

“Abdullah @ Khin Maung Thein “ is a Rohingya artist and storyteller undertaking photography, videography and poetry. He is a former school teacher from Maungdaw, Rakhine State in Myanmar. Forced to flee his home, he arrived in Bangladesh in early September 2017 and started working with the Rollywood Rohingya film team making videos re-enacting Rohingya life. He has produced several photoessays and poetry books on different topics.
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In 2019, his photographs were published by the Asia Time and many other. In August 2020, he received third prize in the photo series category from the Rohingya Photo Competition. In 2021, his work was published by Westword in Today, Tomorrow, Forever: Being Rohingya in Australia. His photographs have been exhibited at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre in Ottawa and the Oxford Human Rights Festival. In 2022, He and his fellow photographers have published a photo magazine on Identity of Rohingya with their collective photos and story. Moreover, he was awarded for his photography and poetry in the International Art Contest on Statelessness organised by Minority Rights Group International, OHCHR, UN and UNHCR in Geneva. In 2023, He represented the stories of his community with his poetry in the 10th edition of Litfest in Dhaka with other two Rohingya female artists and created couple documentary films, some of them are The Rohingya resistance  and a human trafficking. Recently, he has been recognised as a Nansen refugee award regional winner for Asia and Pacific.