Rio’s Intimate Bali in Transition

In his latest exhibition, Rio Helmi presents the ethnic beauty of today’s Bali through his eyes.

July 13, 2011

WHEN I visit a photographic exhibition about Bali or Indonesia these days, I do not really expect much. The chances are that I will get the ‘still pristine landscape angle’ especially reserved for photographic purposes in an otherwise damaged environment. If not, it will be the socially sensitive depiction of poor or marginal people, or at best, contemporary painting-inspired compositions of the kind made famous by Canadian La Chapelle. In ot

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