আসিফ সালমান | ASIF SALMAN
Asif Salman is an architectural photographer, architect, and educator based in Dhaka. Over ten years he has documented more than 500 commissions across Bangladesh, South Asia, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United Arab Emirates, including nearly every internationally recognized Bangladeshi building of the past decade—work honored by the RIBA International Prize, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and TIME's World's Greatest Places.
His photographs are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and appear in Marina Tabassum: Architecture, My Journey (ArchiTangle, 2023), for which he was lead photographer, Serpentine Pavilion 2025: A Capsule in Time (Serpentine/Walther and Franz König, 2025), and Concrete Jungle (gestalten, 2023), with work forthcoming in the Victoria and Albert Museum's South Asia Now. He was named among ArchDaily's 25 Emerging Architectural Photographers in 2021 and Loop Magazine's 100 Most Inspiring Architecture Photographers in 2022.
He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, where he serves as adjunct faculty. He is currently developing Delta Modern, a study of photography and the global emergence of Bangladeshi architecture, 2016–26, and Human Colony, a constructed-photography series.
About
Collections
2024
Museum of Modern Art, New York — Khudi Bari (tiny house), Marina Tabassum Architects, 2020–2023. Photograph by Asif Salman; Committee on Architecture and Design Funds, 161.2024.5.
Recognition
2022
100 Most Inspiring Architecture Photographers, Loop magazine
2021
25 Emerging Architectural Photographers, ArchDaily
2021
Speaker, TEDxAUST, Dhaka
Documented works recognized by the RIBA International Prize (2021), the RIBA International Awards for Excellence (2024, 2026), the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2016, 2022), and TIME's World's Greatest Places (2025).
Exhibitions
2023
photographs and films
2023
2022
2022
2019–20
Marina Tabassum: In Bangladesh, Architekturmuseum der TUM, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich photographs and seven films
Architecture as Freedom, curated by Adnan Zillur Morshed, AIA District Architecture Center, Washington, DC — photographs of BRAC regional offices
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London — Khudi Bari, Marina Tabassum Architects (photographs)
Sthiti, Brihatta Art Foundation, Dhaka — design exhibition curated by Bishwajit Goswami, Diane Rhyu Taylor, and Ulrike Fellner
Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Rights of Future Generations, curated by Adrian Lahoud — Inheriting Wetness, Marina Tabassum Architects (photographs)
Books and catalogues
2026
Shamsul Wares: An Architecture of Elemental Modernism, edited by Adnan Zillur Morshed
photographs
2026
2026
2025
2025
2024
2024
2024
2023
2023
2023
2022
Spatial (In)Justice: How Does It Manifest in the Built Environment? edited by Adnan Zillur Morshed (Wiley, 2026)
The July Resolve: Hidden Faces of a Nation's Uprising, edited by Rezwan Rahman (University Press Limited, 2026)
Rafiq Azam: Old Dhaka–New Story: Architecture in Bangladesh, edited by Rosa Maria Falvo, introduction by Kenneth Frampton (Rizzoli, 2025)
Serpentine Pavilion 2025: A Capsule in Time — Marina Tabassum Architects, edited by Chris Bayley (Serpentine and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2025)
Rising Oceans and Spaces That Care: Complexities and Ideas behind the Friendship Hospital by Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA, edited by Niklaus Graber — photographs alongside Hélène Binet
Architecture as Freedom, Adnan Zillur Morshed, supported by BRAC
Khudi Bari: A Social Project by Marina Tabassum Architects and Its Journey from Dhaka to Weil am Rhein (Vitra Design Museum)
Marina Tabassum: Architecture, My Journey, edited by Cristina Steingräber (ArchiTangle, 2023) — lead photographer
Concrete Jungle: Tropical Architecture and Its Surprising Origins (gestalten, 2023)
Architectural Guide Dhaka, Sayed Ahmed (DOM Publishers, 2023)
Inclusive Architecture: Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2022, edited by Sarah M. Whiting (ArchiTangle, 2022)
South Asia Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London — forthcoming
Teaching
2024-
2021-22
Adjunct faculty, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka
Visiting faculty, Bangladesh University, Dhaka
Curriculum vitae
Contact
Studios
Founder of salARCHman Studio and Buno.Studio; cofounder of Rendermad.ai. See Ventures.