Brief Bio:
Nafis is a scholar and artist working with photography. He studied Art & Design at the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design of London Guildhall University in London, Photography at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Denmark and was awarded an MFA in Photography from IED Madrid.

From 2012 to 2014 he participated in the mentor program at the world's elite VII photo agency.

Recently, he has been awarded Pride Photo Award in the 2015 Theme category for his long term work "Inner Face" in the Netherlands. Pride Photo Award is considered to be the most prestigious International Photography Contest about Gender and Sexual Diversity.

http://www.pridephotoaward.org/edition-2015/winners-2015
And previously he won the Blurb Award at the Format International Photography Festival in the UK.

www.facebook.com/gazinafisahmed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazi_Nafis_Ahmed

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am a citizen of the world, social, I love meeting people & learning new things. I think couchsurfing is not merely to look for places to stay but a great platform to interact with lives we would otherwise not have. The beauty of exploring the new places, people through different eyes have been made easier by couch surfers.

Some Quotes about meeting people and travelling :

If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths! - Mehmet Murat Ildan

I meet people and they become chapters in my stories. - Avijeet Das

When I met you You felt only mine... - Avijeet Das

Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. - Gustave Flaubert

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. - Mark Twain

How I got to know about Couchsurfing:

This is how it started. It happened when I was living as a student in a city called Aarhus in Denmark. One day I was out photographing in downtown Aarhus and I heard this beautiful song and guitar being played by a person named Vlad. I stood there listening to the song. That time I knew nothing about Couchsurfing. Vlad was waiting for his Aussie guest surfer Aaron to join. We had a conversation, and they invited to couch surfers party the same evening. It was a house party hosted by a pretty young Danish couch surfer. There I learned how this whole thing works and about events. I even attended several Free Hugs and Flash mob events to Photograph.

Interests

Art, Music, Tabla, Visual Anthropology, Ethnography, Culture, Food, Swimming, Jogging, Travel, Meeting people, Film, Tantra massage.

• arts
• culture
• humanities
• design
• contemporary art
• photography
• documentaries
• festivals
• dining
• cooking
• yoga
• meditation
• partying
• traveling
• socializing
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• swimming
• anthropology
• communications
• journalism
• massage
• tantra massage

Music, Movies, and Books

Before Sunrise, Before Sunset.

I like Art Films especially works by Satyajit Roy, Andrei Tarkovski, Vittoria De Sica, Majid Majidi, Akira Kurosawa, Wong Kar-wai, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Alfred Hitchcock

Air, Hari Haran, Husky Rescue, Bismillah Khan Saheb, Bob Marley, The Cranberries, Sigur Ros, Royksopp, Stevie Wonder, Lenny Kravitz. I have a diverse taste in music, the list can go on.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

parasurfing

Teach, Learn, Share

I can show you my Photography books, talk about Photography, Art, Life, Experiences, and Stories.

I can teach you to cook Spicy south asian food ;-), not sure if you can handle it ;-) .

I can provide a massage/tantra massage, I took courses in it in India, Thailand, and Spain.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am not hosting at the moment as I am doing the Artist Residency program and working on my research thesis. Presently I am living in Girona Spain close to France.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bangladesh, Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, Spain, United Kingdom, United States