Career
He served as chief photographer of Bengali newspaper The Daily Ittefaq. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2006 by the Government of Bangladesh. Ahmed started his career as photojournalist in The Daily Ittefaq in 1962.
He took photographs during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
On 24 December 2013 Ahmed was found dead at his house in West Rampura region in Dhaka. According to the police, his hands and legs were tied up and a gag was wrapped around his mouth when his body was foundation
Dhaka Medical College morgue concluded his death was caused by strangulation in the post-mortem report.