Observing Misery During a Pause

Portraits of misery can be arranged in a visual structure that takes into account the ethical and esthetic aspects and sometimes add humor to it.

March 20, 2007

Title: Fifty-Seven Seconds Photo Curator/Editor: Oscar Motuloh Publisher: R&W 2007 170 pp

TWO major disasters in Indonesia in the past three years are represented in two books of photography. The 2004 tsunami can be traced back in a book of photography called Samudera Air Mata (Ocean of Tears, GFJA, 2005) while the earthquake that rocked Yogyakarta last year can be found in a book whose title refers to the power of the shock of the Richter sc

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