Arkademy Project x CISDI Documentary Photography Exhibition, 5-16 November 2022 at Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia
Ahoy! It’s my first photography exhibition!
Yes, my day (and night) job is a dispute resolution lawyer. And yes, I am passionate about that—not just to make a living.
I’m human. I’m multifaceted. I am more than one thing, to quote David Whyte’s ‘Istanbul’.
Photography is one of my long-time other passions. While I am not a professional, I am no dilettante. I hope this exhibition serves as evidence to support such claim.
I was paid, ‘on assignment’ arrangement, for my expenses in this documentary photography scholarship. 12 photographers were assigned to cover the stories of health volunteers in Depok, Bekasi, and Bandung.
These invisible health workers implement the public health policies and initiatives at grass root level: identifying Covid infections in their neighbourhood, assisting underprivileged patients with the paperworks for accessing public healthcare. They are working closely with public clinics and hospitals and local government apparatus.
Observing them and representing them in a visual story have been an exercise of the Good Life. To understand people outside my socio-economic bubble.
