He is currently a photojournalist at Zuma Press news agency and contributor photographer for Getty images.

[citation needed] He won a 3rd Prize award at the 2021 World Press Photo for his Climate Crisis Solutions: Collecting Drinking Water in Kalabogi.

[1] Asad graduated with a degree in photography from Pathshala (The South Asian Media Academy) in 2008.

[2] In 2007, when Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, Asad went to remote places to capture the conditions of local people.

[4] His work has been published by The Guardian,[5] Time, CNN, BBC, New Internationalist, The New York Times, Asia Time, The Telegraph,[6] Days Japan, Paris Match, National Geographic[7] (August 2019 cover picture)[8][9] Discovery Channel magazine, Feature shoot, The Wall Street Journal, Saudi Aramco world magazine, MSNBC and Smithsonian.