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Author Rahnuma Ahmed. 2012. ??Shahidul Alam/Majority World
In her public lecture “Reclaiming Life in Times of Death” Rahnuma Ahmed speaks about the urgent necessity to “think for ourselves” (Begum Rokeya), to reflect on Martin Luther King’s characterisation of life as being “something worth dying for” — in an age when the most powerful nation on earth pursues its so-called “war on terror” which has led to over a million deaths, and untold miseries and suffering. It is a war which has no limits, and after more than a decade, we should be able to question whether the “war” is for reasons publicly proclaimed by the US and its military allies. Unless we are able to think for ourselves, we are not — as King says, and Begum Rokeya, most likely would wholeheartedly support — “fit to be living.” Download the PDF file
Date?? : Thursday, 12 July 2012
Time?? :?10:50 am to 12:20 pm
Venue : ULAB Auditorium, House 56, Road 4/A (Satmasjid Road), Dhaka
Author: Shahidul Alam
Time Magazine Person of the Year 2018. A photographer, writer, curator and activist, Shahidul Alam obtained a PhD in chemistry before switching to photography. His seminal work “The Struggle for Democracy” contributed to the removal of General Ershad. Former president of the Bangladesh Photographic Society, Alam set up the Drik agency, Chobi Mela festival and Pathshala, South Asian Media Institute, considered one of the finest schools of photography in the world.
Shown in MOMA New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Royal Albert Hall and Tate Modern, Alam has been guest curator of Whitechapel Gallery, Winterthur Gallery and Musee de Quai Branly. His awards include Mother Jones, Shilpakala Award and Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dali International Festival of Photography.
Speaker at Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Oxford and Cambridge universities, TEDx, POPTech and National Geographic, Alam chaired the international jury of the prestigious World Press Photo contest. Honorary Fellow of Royal Photographic Society, Alam is visiting professor of Sunderland University in UK and advisory board member of National Geographic Society.
John Morris, the former picture editor of Life Magazine describes his book “My journey as a witness”, (listed in “Best Photo Books of 2011” by American Photo), as “The most important book ever written by a photographer.”
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I made it a one-click download in place of the previous two-click one, to make it easier. It seems to download OK from several computers we’ve tested. Please send me your email to shahidul at drik dot net and I shall send it to you directly. Best, Shahdiul
Where is the text file ?!
http://www.shahidulnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ReclaimingLifeWithPicsForShahidulNews19July20121.pdf
The link takes you to a blank page!!
cld u pls try again, i think the glitch has been fixed,
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http://www.shahidulnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ReclaimingLifeWithPicsForShahidulNews19July20121.pdf?
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It still doesn’t work
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I made it a one-click download in place of the previous two-click one, to make it easier. It seems to download OK from several computers we’ve tested. Please send me your email to shahidul at drik dot net and I shall send it to you directly. Best, Shahdiul