Fwd: [shahidulnews] Chobi Mela VI deadline approaching

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From: Shahidul Alam <shahidul@drik.net>
Date: Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:01 PM
Subject: [shahidulnews] Chobi Mela VI deadline approaching
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Last few days for submission of work to Chobi Mela VI. Please let all your photographer friends know: Call for submission at: http://www.shahidulnews.com/2010/07/dreams/

http://www.shahidulnews.com/2010/08/the-pale-blue-dot/

The Pale Blue Dot: By Carl Sagan: Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

http://www.shahidulnews.com/2010/07/the-great-imitator/

A Film by Atul Loke: Ashok got off his bike and gaped at the poster for 10 minutes.He forgot about his job, bought a ticket and went in. 'A whole new world of cinema opened up for me. The music, the technique, the photography was all so different! And I thought, is Chaplin an actor or a magician? 

http://www.shahidulnews.com/pathshala-updates-vii/

Presentation by Jonas Bendiksen

Pathshala, South Asian Media Academy
Sunday, 08 August 2010, 5.00pm – 7.00pm

Jonas Bendiksen is Norwegian and was born in 1977. He began his career at the age of 19 as an intern at Magnum's London office, before leaving for Russia to pursue his own work as a photojournalist. Throughout the several years he spent there, Bendiksen photographed stories from the fringes of the former Soviet Union, a project that was published as the book Satellites (2006).

http://www.shahidulnews.com/pathshala-updates-vii/ (lower down the page)

Julia Margaret Cameron Award

Documentary and Editorial: THIRD PRIZE
Taslima Akhter, Bangladesh, "Life & Struggles of garments' workers 06″

http://www.shahidulnews.com/pathshala-updates-vii/ (further down the page)

Andrew Biraj wins SAJA 2010 Journalism Award

WINNER: Category 6: Outstanding photograph about South Asia, or South Asians in North America (single or series)

http://www.shahidulnews.com/breaking-news-ii/

Dead for being late.

She was said to have arrived ten minutes late. She was severely rebuked. Later her dead body was found. Her body having fallen from the rooftop of the Vertex Garments where she worked. The minimum wage for a garment worker remains around US $ 24 per month, though the government have promised an increase to 3000 Taka (around USD 43).

http://www.shahidulnews.com/grants-residencies-call-for-papers-2/

TAAZA TAREEN VI 2010

Vasl Residencies for South Asian Artists

Vasl is now accepting applications from recent graduates across Pakistan and South-Asian countries.
Application deadline: 5th September, 2010.

http://www.shahidulnews.com/things-friends-have-been-up-to/

SONGOOK YAAKAAR

New solo work of Germaine Acogny

"Africa brings the world laughter! "My weapon, my ferry is Dance, blessed by the ancestral gods of my people. I dance beyond the words and evils of this world in hope for my damaged Africas and in defence of my own joyous interest. " Germaine Acogny

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