{"id":1416,"date":"2011-09-29T15:03:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T15:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2011-09-29T15:03:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T15:03:41","slug":"shahidul-alam-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"Shahidul Alam in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I began to write about &#8216;<em>World Photography<\/em>&#8216; eleven or so years ago, one man in particular earned my respect for his work in setting up the agency Drik and in general promoting photography from the majority world.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned <strong>Dr Shahidul Alam<\/strong> quite a few times on this site, and next week those in London can hear him give a free public talk<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shahidulnews.com\/2011\/09\/public-talk-at-national-geographic\/\" target=\"_blank\">When the lions find their storytellers<\/a><\/em> at the National Geographic Store, 83-97 Regent Street on October 4th at 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the week, his first solo retrospective in the UK, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tristanhoare.co.uk\/exhibitions-Shahidul_Alam.htm\" target=\"_blank\">My Journey as Witness<\/a>&#8216; opens at Tristan Hoare&#8217;s gallery in the Wilmotte  Gallery at\u00a0Lichfield Studios, 133 Oxford Gardens, London W10 6NE on 6th October, and runs until 18 November 2011, with a <a href=\"http:\/\/drik.net\/shahidul-alam-my-journey-as-a-witness\/#booklaunch\" target=\"_blank\">book of the same title<\/a> being launched the in the UK on October 10 by Skira, Milan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I began to write about &#8216;World Photography&#8216; eleven or so years ago, one man in particular earned my respect for his work in setting up the agency Drik and in general promoting photography from the majority world. I&#8217;ve mentioned Dr Shahidul Alam quite a few times on this site, and next week those in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shahidul Alam in London<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-photographers","category-political-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","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=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}