anātman — A Photography Exhibition
Without self, without core. Nothing is eternal; everything changes, moment to moment — and what remains is connection, gratitude, and a compassion that reaches the living and the non-living alike.
Photography
Photographs
I have always felt that I “fail” at storytelling through still images. A split-second photograph — especially a documentary or journalistic one — can speak more profoundly than a film, or even a book, and I have not yet made one that powerful. But as a medium for conveying feeling, photography never fails — especially when the feeling is not dramatised. Honest, and as it is.
Photography is not my profession. It is the practice I keep returning to — the one I make to no one's brief but my own. That is also why there is so little of it here: the film work rarely stops, and these pictures are made in the spaces it leaves.
The portraits are made on medium format 120 film, 6×6. The other work is not.
Exhibitions & series
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Akar yang Menjaga
Women with disabilities at the front line of mangrove planting on Bali's west coast. Black and white, vertical: portraits made with the subjects, not of them.
Batak: Perjalanan ke Tanah Leluhur
Seven weeks of fieldwork documenting birth, death and marriage rituals in Toba, Karo and Mandailing. My contribution to the exhibition was not photographs but a 40-minute documentary, screened inside the gallery.
The Kawah Ijen Warriors
Eighty-seven photographs on the daily life, labour and hopes of the sulphur miners of Kawah Ijen, Banyuwangi, made with Tim Tanah Air for International Labour Day.
unbreakable
My first exhibition: the graduating work of the twelfth GFJA photojournalism workshop, thirty-two photographers, opened by Asro Kamal Rokan.
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Portraiture
Portraits of people — specials and randoms — made on medium format 120 film, 6×6.