As part of enthusiasm on lifestyle and distinctness of improvised city-dwelling families and rural villagers, Shehab Uddin, the well acclaimed freelance photographer will came up with a series of three consecutive photo exhibitions titled “Chain of Poverty” on Friday.
“Born Into a Poor Family” the first episode of the exhibitions will be inaugurated around 2:30pm at Kalabagi village of Dakup upazila of Khulna. The exhibition will remain open from January 6 to January 20.
In the episode, the photographer tried to unveil a story of livelihoods also an enormous struggle with extreme poverty of rural families staying adjacent to the Sundarbans. Shehab Uddin’s journey with an interrogation of the photographic medium will interpret rural people’s struggle through his light and shadow works in a passionate way.
The next two episodes are “No Life on the Street” and “This is the Life”.
The exhibition of “No Life on The Street” will begin around 2.30pm on January 25 at Kamalapur Rail Station (in front of Platform 8) in the capital.
Last part of the series titled “This is the Life” will begin around 2:30pm on January 30 at Jobbar Hajir Bari near Matbor Bazar (Pakka Pul) area of Kamrangirchar in the capital.
A Panos media fellow, Shehab Uddin is a freelance photographer from Bangladesh now based in Australia. Shehab is currently doing his Doctor of Visual Arts and also working as a tutor at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.
Shehab’s work has been exhibited globally and also in online galleries. He won numerous awards such as Project Grant, Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, Magnum Foundation and also the Professional Grant, Alexia Foundation, USA and All Roads (Honourable Mention) National Geographic for his project “Amarao Manush: Pavement Dwellers” as well as, WHO, Asahi Shimbun, IIPC, FIAP and HPA.
