{"id":1301,"date":"2011-04-26T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2011-04-26T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T16:24:35","slug":"birmingham-under-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Under Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new issue of then online magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lensculture.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">lensculture<\/a> is always worth reading, even if at times I don&#8217;t\u00a0 appreciate everything in it. For me the outstanding feature in the current issue is<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lensculture.com\/hingley.html?thisPic=100\" target=\"_blank\">Under Gods: Stories from Soho Road<\/a>  by Liz Hingley, the result of a two year project on  the many religious communities -Thai, Sri Lankan and Vietnamese Buddhists, Rastafarians, the Jesus Army evangelical Christians, Sikhs, Catholic nuns, Hare Krishnas and others along a two mile stretch of a main road in inner city Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a project that obviously results from an in-depth approach, getting to know and be accepted by the various groups, and the images have a quiet strength, a spirituality that very much befits the subject matter, along with a fine use of colour.\u00a0 There are 40 images in the feature and every one was freshly seen, and the whole set work together beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>Other features that interested me include Face to Face:Georgian Photography (you can see more work from the show <a href=\"http:\/\/pobedagallery.com\/artists\/28-georgian-photography\/works\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) and The Social Networ and Gazi Nafis Ahmed\u0092s pictures of same-sex couples and tough kids on the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh. You can see more of his photography on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazinafis.com\/show.html\" target=\"_blank\">own site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new issue of then online magazine lensculture is always worth reading, even if at times I don&#8217;t\u00a0 appreciate everything in it. For me the outstanding feature in the current issue is Under Gods: Stories from Soho Road by Liz Hingley, the result of a two year project on the many religious communities -Thai, Sri &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1301\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birmingham Under Gods<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}