Sohan Rahat

About

Sohan Rahat is one of Bangladesh’s most experienced fixers and field producers — a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker with over 12 years facilitating international crews on the ground. He has personally supported more than 200 assignments for BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic, Al Jazeera, Discovery International, and Sky News, handling everything from government permits and ministry access to crew logistics, translator briefings, and on-ground safety. His speciality is access — to people, places, and stories that remain closed to those without deep roots in Bangladeshi communities. What sets Sohan apart from any logistics coordinator is that he is a storyteller himself. As field producer for Earthrise and country producer for Seat at the Table — screened at COP26 — he has spent years working at the intersection where climate crisis meets human lives, amplifying the voices of Bangladeshi communities living on the frontlines of ecological unraveling. His lens has followed Asian elephants whose ancient migration routes were severed by the weight of the Rohingya crisis — a story of displacement echoing displacement, where human tragedy and ecological loss cannot be separated. When international crews arrive in Bangladesh, they are not briefed by a fixer. They are guided by someone who has already spent years listening to the same landscape. Sohan is an Earth Journalism Fellow of 2025, trained at Deutsche Welle where his reporting earned top recognition, and selected for Oxford University’s inaugural Climate Journalism Network. He is currently crafting a documentary set in the Sundarbans — the world’s largest mangrove forest — weaving together myth, sacred ecology, and lived reality, with the forest goddess Bonbibi not as folklore but as a living framework for how communities navigate survival and reverence. He brings to every assignment both the logistical precision that international broadcasters require and the editorial instinct of someone who understands, at depth, what it means to tell Bangladesh’s stories with honesty and care.