Farhat Basir Khan

Who is Farhat Basir Khan?

Farhat Basir Khan is an Indian Photographer and media expert. A senior most faculty member at the AJK Mass Communication and Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia where he holds the prestigious Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Chair. Khan has completed several national and international media projects and consultancies and distinguished himself as a visiting faculty and jury member both in India and abroad. His contribution to photography and media studies in India, both as an academician as well as an industry professional, has been widely acknowledged.

Khan has also served as the Professor of Media & Communication at the AJK Mass Communication and Research Centre where he officiates as the director of the centre in absence of the director He has also founded the Academy for Photographic Excellence - a Jindal Photo Initiative with which he was associated in the capacity of professor and Director.

He uses new media formats like walk in multimedia installation for symposium and is considered to be the father of modern Photography and Mass education in India. Khan has been instrumental in vocationalisation of media education in the country. Been rigorously involved in designing new media courses and setting up facilities at Educational Institutes throughout. He helped in the formulation of the National education policy in 1993, was first to design and develop a three year undergraduate degree programme in still photography which was adopted by UGC, assisted the Department of Vocationalisation of Education for NCERT for their first photography vocational course at senior school level in mid eighties.