{"id":316,"date":"2011-10-11T12:12:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T06:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2020-05-12T22:48:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T16:48:22","slug":"metropolis-city-life-of-urban-age-exhibition-noorderlicht-festival-of-photography-2011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/metropolis-city-life-of-urban-age-exhibition-noorderlicht-festival-of-photography-2011-2\/","title":{"rendered":"METROPOLIS, CITY LIFE OF URBAN AGE: EXHIBITION @ NOORDERLICHT FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\n  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','https:\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');<\/p>\n<p>  ga('create', 'UA-33681611-1', 'auto');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');<\/p>\n<p><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The young photographer Sayed Asif Mahmud knows first-hand what it means to work in the exponentially expanding third-world metropolis of Dhaka. Coming from the city\u2019s relatively quiet outskirts, he was confronted with the individualism and pursuit of success that characterises hyper-dynamic urban life. Hesitant about joining in the race, he was overcome by feelings of loneliness and despair. But slowly the city began to change him. It is this continuing process of perception and experience that he seeks to pour into images\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-535\" src=\"http:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Screen-Shot-2013-11-20-at-4.03.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1062\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Screen-Shot-2013-11-20-at-4.03.28-PM.png 1062w, https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Screen-Shot-2013-11-20-at-4.03.28-PM-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Screen-Shot-2013-11-20-at-4.03.28-PM-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Screen-Shot-2013-11-20-at-4.03.28-PM-1024x564.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1062px) 100vw, 1062px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-536\" src=\"http:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1050367-5-as-Smart-Object-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1050367-5-as-Smart-Object-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1050367-5-as-Smart-Object-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1050367-5-as-Smart-Object-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1050367-5-as-Smart-Object-1-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Olivier Pin-Fat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young photographer Sayed Asif Mahmud knows first-hand what it means to work in the exponentially expanding third-world metropolis of Dhaka. Coming from the city\u2019s relatively quiet outskirts, he was confronted with the individualism and pursuit of success that characterises hyper-dynamic urban life. Hesitant about joining in the race, he was overcome by feelings of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/metropolis-city-life-of-urban-age-exhibition-noorderlicht-festival-of-photography-2011-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;METROPOLIS, CITY LIFE OF URBAN AGE: EXHIBITION @ NOORDERLICHT FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[20,27,31,57,63,64,67,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sayedasifmahmud.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}