A hundred-year flight
This year, the day was celebrated worldwide, including three photographers--veteran Enam Ul Haque, and two professional aviators Enam Talukder and Sarif Uddin Sarker. Together, they arranged a photography exhibition at the Zainul Gallery of Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka University. The exhibition titled Akasher Thikanay was very interesting all together comprising shots of aeroplanes of various kinds, emphasising on both power and beauty of flight.
Their photographs displayed different aircraft flying at par with the nature, with mountains and clouds drifting in the background. There were also pictures of people strolling by and suddenly stopping to watch a moving aircraft above them, as if making a path for the conqueror of the sky. Scenes like, children throwing off their play things and moving their heads backwards to see a flying aircraft shading their play area, or a village woman gazing at the roaring aircraft through her veil, are common in our country, which were amazingly brought out through the photographs.
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'Even today, a great number of people in our country have never come close to an air craft', says Sarker. 'We have tried to get these people closer to these flying machines through our work.,' Talukder says pointing to a figurative picture of a Biman aircraft. 'When we walk by an engine of a plane, we can never imagine the size of it, which is actually very huge. In fact, a man can even stand within the circular section, and still remain smaller in proportion!'
Someone once said that the world is a small place. Whoever he was, he probably never realised the extent of this truth. Today a mere mortal can fly like a bird, without any wings and close the gaps between the wthousands of boundaries in the world.