Farzana Hossen is a photographer and artist based in Bangladesh. Her work explores human rights, gender inequality, conflict, oppression, intimacy, uncertainty, loss, grief, and trauma. Farzana’s lens focuses on women in cultural contexts that often leave them in the margins.

Farzana is an alumna of Pathshala South Asian Media Institute in Dhaka, the Photoart Institute in Chattogram, Bangladesh, and the Angkor Photo Workshops in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Her work has been recognized and supported through numerous accolades. In 2013, she received the Ian Parry Scholarship Grant and the silver award in the Documentary category from the College Photographer of the Year. She also received the Alexia Foundation Student Award of Excellence in 2014 and was named Getty Images Emerging Talent for 2013-2014. She was a Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellow in 2020 and a Chobi Mela Fellow in 2021. She was shortlisted for the Amnesty Media Awards 2025.

Her work has been exhibited nationally & internationally, including: 1st CPC Group Exhibition at Photobank Gallery, Chittagong (2006); Chittagong Lifelines of a City at Alliance Française de Chittagong (2010); Chobi Mela VI (Self-discovery) at Asiatic Gallery of Fine Arts (2011); Insider, Outsider – A Majority World Exhibition at Guardian Gallery, UK (2012); Mother Gallery in Shoreditch, London (2013); “Voice of Tacitness” – Asian Women Photography Exhibition of the Hong Kong International Photo Festival, Hong Kong (2014); Digital Slideshow, Obscura Festival – Asian Women Photographers’ Showcase (2014); The Second Beijing Photo Biennial, CAFA, Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China (2014); 2nd Documentary Photography Days – Istanbul (2015); Photography Foundation Istanbul “Gender” “Kimlikler Lütfen” (2016); Middle East Technical University in Cyprus (2016); Leymosun Art Center in Girne (2016); ‘Gatha’ – An Installation Art, Charagi Art Show, organized by JOG Art, Chittagong (2016); DOK Festival for Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, Fredrikstad, Norway (2017); Perugia Social Photo Fest – ‘The Skin I Live In’, Italy (2018); Rohingya Crisis: 1 Year On Photography Exhibition, presented by the Government of Bangladesh, the Inter Sector Coordination Group and the United Nations, Bay’s Edgewater Gallery in Gulshan, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2018); Ipas – Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights – Stories of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh on Safe Abortion, Ottawa, Canada (Solo) (2018); Ipas – Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights – Stories of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh on Safe Abortion, Danish Embassy, Washington DC (Solo) (2018); “Counterpoise” – An Art Exhibition, WOWDHK, Bangladesh (2019); Alexia Foundation, Photoville, NYC (2019); British Red Cross’s ‘Look Inside the World’s Largest Refugee Camp’ exhibition, Westfield Stratford City, London, UK (2019); Photography and Social Justice, Photoville, NYC (2020); “Chobi Mela 0” International Festival of Photography, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2021); and Photo London – Exhibition of Winners & 30 Year Tribute (2023).