Sharing about pHotography with Peter Loud in JoGja.Kalau bicara tentang fotografi, bapak ini ahlinya, beliau sudah pernah keliling Indonesia lho...^^dan selalu bersemangat mengabadikan moment-moment sederhana yang nantinya akan menjadi bagian sejarah. Becak adalah contoh salah satu objeknya, beliau bilang,"Now, In Yogyakarta so many becak, but who knows in ten years??"
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI remember meeting you :-)
Now check out my Yogya photos at,
http://www.peterloud.co.uk/photos/Indonesia/Yogya/Yogya.html
I don`t believe you still remember us in Indonesia.
ReplyDeleteI hope you're not angry because I'm wearing your website address on my blog. Because I love your photos. it`s do cool :)
And now you're located where?
I am in England now. It is spring, not hot, not cold. Some days there is a beautiful blue sky with fluffy white clouds, great for photography. If I'd had been able to attach an image I would have sent you my 'very English' photograph from 2 days ago.
ReplyDeleteI am having lots of problems posting a comment. It keeps crashing :-(
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ReplyDeletewell, certainly in the English spring is very beautiful. hmmm ... I have never been to state four seasons: (but I liked seeing the photos from different parts of the world if only from the internet
ReplyDeletenext month I will go to the island of Bali, maybe you've been to the island of Bali:)
oh, is there a problem with your blog?
How about you starting a series of photographs of Javanese women in traditional dress? In another 10 or 20 years traditional dress will have been replaced more modern styles. If you don't photograph it now there will be no record for your grandchildren to see how life was.
ReplyDeleteHow about you starting a series of photographs of Javanese women in traditional dress? In another 10 or 20 years traditional dress will have been replaced more modern styles. If you don't photograph it now there will be no record for your grandchildren to see.
ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely right and good idea, I'll try to take pictures of traditional dress.
ReplyDeletebut, its so dificult for searching the people make "really traditional dress" because now the traditional dress is not focus desain of traditional but more people make this dress mix with modern desain :(
There are some friends of mine who has a hobby of traditional dance, maybe I could take her picture. :)
And I also likes a walk to various areas in Java and Bali islands, at that time I will try to take her picture. As in the Palace of Solo (Surakarta) in Central Java.
in England have traditional clothes like the Indonesian people? :)
I am delighted with your positive response to recording your culture. If you do a good job your photographs will make you a famous photographer before you die. If you photograph sunsets, your friends or weddings no one will remember you.
ReplyDelete"its so dificult for searching the people make "really traditional dress" because now the traditional dress is not focus desain of traditional but more people make this dress mix with modern desain :( . . . "
This is why it is so imortsant that you photograph these aspects of your heritage now.
In England I am also a traditional musician and used to play witha a group of traditional dancers wearing traditional dress, but in those days I did no photography.
I remember how 20 years ago I fell in love with a dancer at the Kraton in Solo. Alas, she never knew it :-(
Coincidentally, I`m is student of science faculty culture. I often see traditional performances. Like, wayang, ludruk, and various traditional dances.
ReplyDeletefrankly, I am just learning photography in the past year. I am very thankful you have given me the inspiration to get to know my culture:)
maybe this week you can already see my results photographing the east Java traditional dance:)
"In England I am Also a traditional musician and Used to play witha a group of traditional dancers wearing traditional dress, but in Those days I did no photography."
Is not there a document from your friend when you're playing music or when you and your friends perform?
I remember how 20 years ago I Fell in love with a dancer at the Palace in Solo. Alas, She never Knew it :-( "
I like to see traditional dances in the solo. The beautiful dancers and has a different aura when on stage:)
Do you have a picture? Or other photos when you're photographing in Solo?
I agree that dancers in traditional costume make interesting subjects for photographs but it is important to photograph ordinary people, in normal life, in traditional dress. I think that you need to spend time in markets and villages. Dancers and actors will be there for ever, real people in traditional dress are disappearing fast.
ReplyDeleteAt the bottom of this webpages there is a photo I took of my friends playing music,
http://www.peteloud.co.uk/tunebook/tunebook.html ,
click on the picture. They are musicians, not dancers in traditional costume, perhaps I have photos like that somewhere.
I also think that other aspects of Indonesian life such as foodstalls should be photographed, before they are replaced by McDonalds & KFC.
Becak are one of my greatest concerns, although it is impossible to be more than one metre from a becak in Yogya there will be a time when they disappear and are only a novelty for tourists, as in Singapore. They need to be photographed now.
I didn't take and photos of dancers in Solo.