Browsing Month 'July, 2010'
Whether it’s the lack of blue sky by day or skies bereft of stars by night, I’ve taken to bleaching all colour and tonality out of my recent photos of Jakarta. At first I took to softening Jakarta’s CBD skylines, casual derives via taxies, as I can’t go any where with out them. The end [...]
I’m a friend of noise. Some of my best friends make an insatiable racket! I’ve been known to create vast swathes of over-driven voices (listen to Kelly Churko and I hammer it out in Tokyo’s bastion of noise, Soup) accelerated with ever widening square wave filters! But put me in a Jakarta hyper-mall or sit [...]
Jakarta is getting richer and the divide between the rich and poor is said to be decreasing, but ever so slowly. There’s so much money and and plastic here. Cleaning products are stacked in supermarkets from floor to ceiling and all of it terribly toxic and no doubt ending up in rivers and oceans! I’m [...]
Who would have guessed that nearly two months since I’d left Inhaca Island, straddling a dhow to Maputo (capital of Mozambique), I’d be taking my morning coffee in the garden of a fine house around the corner from the home of the vice-President of Indonesia in Menteng, Jakarta? In the past five or so weeks [...]
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