Dito YuwonoHave We Met?

Satria RamadhanLove on March

Stanislaus YogaStory of Intersection

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Information CollectorAmalia Faris

EditorDito Yuwono

Editor in Chief Mira Asriningtyas

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After a long and extended process, finally we got this edition done. Unlike the previous two edi-tions, this time we try to carry out one big theme for each edition. Not only that, we also invite a contemporary photography artist, Angki Purban-dono, as the project advisor for this “Tell Your Story” edition.

Tell Your Story invites reader to take a peep to the story behind the contributors’ daily life; how everyone and their activities attached to the other life aspect that surround. Just like a jigsaw puzzle; our life is one piece attached the other pieces. From that connection, the pictures start to deliver more realistic story. Using photography as a medium, Dito Yuwono, Satria Ramadhan, and Stanislaus Yoga try to capture the story behind the modesty of their life routine. All of the projects, ”Have We Met” by Dito Yuwono, ”Love on March” by Satria Ramad-han and ”The Story of Intersection” by Stanislaus Yoga try to look deeper to the detail as well as capture the bigger story from the simplicity of that routine.

We owe a gratitude for those who has kindly shared their time, energy, and work to us. As you might as well guess, this edition is particularly discussed about photography. So, for you who are interested in photography and love to collect moments, hopefully you’ll enjoy this edition!

Arsenal Die Hard Fans, Lomography and Vespa Lover, Like indiepop sound and making pop event, Work at Provoke!Magazine as a Pro-motion, and Manages couple Band like SORE, Ballads of the Cliche, Leonardo and L’alphalpha. and the Motto is “Simple is More”

An ordinary village boy who wants to be a famous pho-tographer

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Somehow, when I start writing this, suddenly two friends from Bandung came to visit my house. They came with my girl friend and gathered straight away to my living room with my TV on and music playing from my handphone. It was 1pm and we start talking about the story about the exhibition opening last night followed by funny stories , love stories, work, networking, luck, cities we had visited, people’s kindness, residency information, superhero, unpaid debt, friend’s lover, art concept, unfinished task, new books, Twitter, last night dream, naked woman, new religion, blue monkey, match, new house, departure, death, train, story about a ghost that eat stone, fatty food, broken bra strap, pee that was forgotten to be flushed, genius lecturer, successful young artist, a crocodile that ate fried rice and forgot to pay, a city that concern about its facility, annoying TV show, last year’s best movies, alcohol, plant that was ruined by the dog, period that always came late, friends who own great facility, body odor, food and weather allergy, a child of a friend who looks like her friend’s husband, weird TV ads, unfair parking man, next week’s party, cheap airplane fare, the history of four-stacks toast, public transportation, a good-looking taxi driver, classic motorcycle, memorable songs, materialistic lover, lucky slut, advancing neighboring country, swimming schedule, an old man with his fix gear bike, the origin of a baby, big butt, people who are anti-government, weather forecast, ice-rain, crispy roasted pig, grilled fish, deficient baby, marijuana that gets more difficult to find, fuel, dangerous antibiotic, impolite bad boy, two-legs sheep, knitted fabric, cooking ingredient, 24-hours market, misplaced flip flops, a thief who never steal, beautiful foreigner, the good side of consuming black bat, music and youth, nap outfit style, chest hair, dry skin, house without a window, a lost collector, tiny tree, narrow street, losing a helmet, quit smoking, colorful local market snacks, boring movies, dentist whose hand is always shaking, speed bump, ex-lover, yellow anesthetic, how to lose fat, new neighbor, school teacher, traffic jam, jackfruit tree inside a house, parents who seldom angry, Betta fish, fake money, itchy nipple, ceramic penis, Five-Decker car, young-coconut ice that happens to be old-coconut ice, braces, how to squeeze the breast, toilet that has never been brushed, eating with the left hand, cheap digital camera, desire for suicide, fucking dog, new wash-ing machine, in-law’s cooking; when out-of a sudden a friend proposes “Let’s eat!”.

It was already 5pm, so, we’ll continue the stories while eating fish-head soup. See you next time. I turn the laptop off.

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I’m pretty sure that everyone around me wishes to share stories with each other each time they met;; whether it was friend, relative, pedi-cap driver, in-laws, or anyone. Thousands of words will pour out of a second when the chance allows them to, plus the moving imagination and pictures to emphasis the story.

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A documentation of faces that started from an issue where other identity such as name is forgot-ten, thus, face came as a savior of forgetting. Face become a fundamental identity that is more difficult to get affected by social life, such as names that comes in many forms, addition, and alteration as needed by certain demand. In the same time, the presence of technology (digital camera) nowadays has given new possibility in documenting faces; something that was quite hard to be manifested in an era before digital camera exists. It was as if technology becomes a solu-

tion of human’s limitation; in this case, digital camera became the solution to solve the limitation of human’s memory. This face documentation is not only taken from friends in the closest circle, but also consist of people whom often seen around. Faces of these people will be recognized without needing another identity. Face as an identity that can stand on its own.

We captured each other’s face, we remember each other’s face, and involuntarily knows each other without having to shake hands.

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Inspired by Belle and Sebastian’s song ti-tled ”Love on March” and also inspired by being a part of the bustle of Jakarta city; Sa-tria Ramadhan tried to keep a record of this city. His proximity with each and every cor-ner of Jakarta, as well as the relaxed rhythm of the music that inspires him; gives a touch of comfort in every detail of the picture he creates. Pieces of Jakarta that emerges in every picture doesn’t feel hustling bustling nor crowded. With 1001 options the big city offers, Satria Ramadhan successfully cap-

tured a simple comfort from a city that is well known as quite a ruthless city. Notes on the journey of delving into the city of Jakarta, sitting in a Trans-Jakarta, down to the sidewalk, and accompanied by the mu-sic of Stuard Murdoch and friends.

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As one of the people who reside in the suburban area (West of Jogjakarta), Stanislaus Yoga tries to ob-serve the migration process through some major intersec-tions that he passes along the way. For him, intersections are the meeting point of people who are migrating to the city as an effort to make a living and to improve their livelihoods.

More than that, these intersec-tions are also seen as a hope in providing the access to his resi-dential area, whether it opens a bigger chance for development, information flow, and culture. Stanislaus Yoga tries to record the migration journey from his region in the west of Jogjakarta to the heart of the city.

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Reading that dialogue illustration in the web open-ing page of Mimi Chakarova, I was taken aback by my ignorance all these times. For me, that dialogue can be conceived as a reminder.

As somebody who enjoys taking photograph, I (may-be) sometime forget about the presence of the object in my snapshot. If that object is another human be-ing, it is inappropriate if I don’t humanize her/him. Normally, in establishing human relationship, it’s only proper to start with introduction, conversation, and later asking for permission to put her/him in the frame for the photographic purposes.

Sometime I forgot that these people who became the photography objects are also carrying their own inter-est in the existence of that picture. For me, a photo doesn’t always stand for my own need. A lot of pic-tures are representing the need of the object inside it. Being up close and personal, as well as being a part of the object’s life; makes the image not only tell more story and having a soul, but also giving the object a certain space needed to deliver what they want and what they need.

Sometime ago I went to friends’ presentation about their experiences in learning photography overseas where intimacy becomes even more important be-cause of their limitation in some other things. This contact allows them not only to take fine photo-graphs, but also give them the access to a complete story without omitting comfort and certain issue the object carries. They emphasize that the story inside the photo series belongs to them (the object), while the role of someone behind the camera is simply to deliver the story nicely.

Sometime, my presence behind the camera makes me oblivious. I forgot to understand the thing in which the object wants to share and which one should remain a secret; or even what makes the object feel comfort-able and which one makes them uneasy. Sometime I forgot how unpleasant could it be to be the powerless object. Sometime, I also fail to remember that physi-cal and emotional boundaries are the only way to see everything closer, clearer, and more real. Maybe I’m the only one who becomes ignorant; maybe it’s just me who has this little problem of being “attached” or maybe, we all share the same concern?

can I Take Your Picture?For What?To show others how you liveWill they come here and make it better?I don’t know….... Probably not.Why you want to shoot an old man anyway?Because history is written on your face.Go ahead if it pleases you., What pleases you?I don’t remember.

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How did you start working in photography?I love photography since i was in senior high school. Then I had a chance to live in Switzer-land for in year 2000 to 2001. And before i left Indonesia, my mom gave me a Nikon F4 with an 80-200 mm f2.8 lens. I loved it more and more after that.

What do you like about photography?It’s just like a poem. It hides and shows many things at the same time, over and over again.

What does photography mean for you?Photography means celebrating life.

How do you describe your relationship with photography?I’m closer to that than to my sisters.

What is the most interesting experience you’ve ever had in photography?Photographing a woman who gave a birth to her son for the first time. Took almost 20 hours. It was a time when i just didn’t know what to say....

What inspire your work?Could be anything. My own or someone else’s photos, songs, poems, feelings.

What are five things that describe you?Organized. Cheerful. Food and friend lovers. Solitude at the same time. Moody.

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How did you start working in photography?Back then, photography was a hobby I did while climbing a mountain. Every time we climb a moun-tain, I will be the photographer for my friends. It was started as a hobby improving to be a job right after I have my own family. It was also because of Mt.Merapi that I started taking pictures of it for myself and later use the photos for fund raising in 1994. I never stop ever since.

What do you like about photography?We can tell a story through our eyes. I’m happy when people enjoy my photograph. That is why I prefer photo journalistic: because it has a lot of tale to tell. I like it even better when my photograph can help people toward a better life.

What does photography mean for you?First of all is making the living for my family. Then, I like it when my picture becomes worthwhile for other people’s life. For example, once upon a time, one of my photographs in Reuters about the drought in Gunung Kidul came up at the first page of Jakarta Post; apparently, it triggered someone to give a helping hand for that area. The stillness of a photograph allows us to see deeper and deeper each time we look at the picture.

How do you describe your relationship with photog-raphy?It is attached as a part of my life. Everywhere I go, I always have my camera in hand. Photography is just like a second wife to me. It becomes irremov-able part of me right now.

What is the most interesting experience you’ve ever had in photography?One day, I got news that there was a 15-meters-long giant snake in Temanggung, so, I went to the location and take a picture of the infamous snake. When the picture went up in Reuters; a snake ex-pert called and questioned about the actual length of the snake. That was when I had to go back all the way to that small town and specifically measure the length of the snake only to find that the snake wasn’t even reach 15 meters long. That’s when I started not to always believe in any data provided without proof.

What inspire your work?Painting, comics, movie, but above all; it was fine arts that inspire me the most even though my works are mostly journalistic. Socializing also inspires me in many other ways.

What are five things that describe you?Children’s education, photograph, positive, father, smile.

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How did you start working in photography?At first, after graduating from high school, I wanted to continue my study in ISI and learn to draw because it was my hobby. Yet, I failed the enrolling test of ISI Jogja in 1995 and went to Modern School of Design majoring in Interior Design in 1996 instead. Back then, my housemates in Mes AURI Jl.Kol Sugiono No.56 were students of ISI class of 1994 majoring in photography (they are the embryo of Mess 56 community). It was even more difficult to enroll Fine Art major in ISI at that time because the competitors are beyond number, thus, I was a bit unconfident. Meanwhile, the Recording Media Art major in ISI had wider opportunity, and I already had friends who are supportive and ready to guide me through the enrolling examination of Record-ing Media Art :) It was the first time I held an SLR camera and feeling a bit swankier :D The second decision was my sweet talk at the interview test by the lecturer: “Why did you apply for photogra-phy major?” he asked, and I said: “I want to be a professional photographer!” Maybe that was how it started.

What do you like about photography?Just like any other art medium, we can use photog-raphy to express ourselves.

What does photography mean for you?Medium

How do you describe your relationship with photography?Just like brothers, my other younger brother is video :)

What is the most interesting experience you had after all these year working with photography?Photography has made my life interesting

What inspire your work?Observation, chit-chat, daydreaming and listening to my favorite music, reading.

What are five things that describe you?A lot of black, a bit handsome, a bit of style, a lot of asking a bit of answering, a lot of joking when I start drinking.

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“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little

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As real as it can be, photography is another form of magic that allows people to create a world of fantasy and do the almost impossible: stop a mo-ment from passing by. A photographer might know exactly the value of a moment and the beauty of a second that almost glides away.

To me, photographers are collectors of time and memories. When I was young, my father was a photographer. It was his side-job as well as one of his passions. He might not be a famous one, but I love the way he treats photography as the way to preserve a moment. Thus, most of his works felt very personal and soulful.

As soon as my only brother passed away, my father treats photography as a way to memorize and capture second by second he might

as well lost~ almost like an obsession. He stopped working as a photographer and start capturing mo-ments in a jar of lucid memories instead.

Since then, he kept taking my pictures every time I was ill. That was quite a lot of collection, I might say. In my worst day, my father would drag me off the bed and take a portrait of me. In one way, he was afraid of losing me so he wanted to ‘preserve’

me; in another way, he was just being logical and preparing for the worst. He kept doing this for seven years after losing my only brother. He stopped taking a snapshot of me in my poor health condition after my youngest sister was born. At last, he was healed from his pain of losing a child.

Now, that obsession is pretty much running in my blood. Photograph for me is another way to preserve a moment in a jar of lucid memory. I am obsessed to stop a precious second from floating away without a trace. Yet, I am not a photographer. I simply enjoy photograph and love creating a story using images.

In a picture, I would opt for peculiar image that tells something rather than one that is stunningly beauti-ful but speaks of nothing. Photographers are magicians behind the lens. They can freeze the time from stopping

by, bring someone back to a time that has long passed, make imagination comes true, control a storyline, capture a dream and present it in a tangible version. To me, even a dramatic image wouldn’t leave a linger-ing trace in one’s heart when it doesn’t deliver a story nicely. When a picture successfully tells a thousand tales, that’s when a photographer transformed into a real magician behind the lens who’d gave the work a breath and tells the story of its own.

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Jim Marshal is the legendary music photogra-pher who photographed legendary faces such as Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stone, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and others famous musicians. In the 1960s to 1970s, he define rock ‘n’ roll pho-tography for the first time as well as defining the objects themselves. For over a 50-year career, he created hundreds of legendary images through magazine features, more than 500 album covers, and six books.

His photographs are mostly produced in crisp black and white; portrayed the stars on their peak of popularity as well as in unguarded offstage scenes that humanized them as approachable or vulnerable person they are.

In order to get the ‘unapproachable’ access to the approachable portraiture of the rock stars, he insisted to get extraordinary access that almost always granted. His subjects were also enjoyed his photos and even let him follow them for days. This extraordinary access also made him the only photographer allowed backstage for the Beatles final concert, 1969 Woodstock, and the Rolling Stones 1972 tour. This was, his work appears in more photojournalistic terms that successfully capture the natural scene of the rock stars’ life.(miy).

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Be prepared to find a conceptual set of photos with a nymph-like lady surrounded by surreal im-ages such as flying furniture, shadows, and other juxtaposes. Her whimsical exploration and playful images soon make her a rising star in the world of fine art fashion photography.

Her intention in photography is to entertain peo-ple through her works and make people forget the troubles of the world and concentrate on wishes and hopes. She enjoys to explore the beauty and secrets of a woman, girls magical fantasy, and children’s world of wonders. Surprises and out-of-this-world kind of photos are likely to be found in her portfolio (miy).

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Long before the internet era of street style fashion photographer like Schott Schuman of the Sartorialist or Tommy Ton of Jak and Jill exist; Bill Cunningham has already point his camera toward the most fashionable people walking on the street of the capital city of fashion.

More than just street fashion photographer, Bill Cunningham is like a cultural anthropologist who intensively documenting post-war trends history in his New York Times column “On the Street” and high society soirées in “Evening Hours” for the past 30 years.

As Cunningham says, “The best fashion show is on the street. It always has been and always will be”. Instead of looking for what’s fashionable at that moment, he’d prefer to ‘let the street speaks for itself’. Despite his haute sense of fashion and encyclopedic knowledge of couture, it doesn’t matter much for him who he had photographed (whether it was a celebrity or not) as long as the object has interesting way to put clothes together.

A documentary titled “Bill Cunningham New York” about the life of Bill Cunningham (plus his bicycle and his camera) has been released in the middle of March 2011. Don’t forget to follow his work in the style video section on The New York Times website (miy).

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William Gentle, well known as Backyard Bill, is the master of making great profile picture mixed with stories of interesting people. His website, Backyard Bill, host numerous of “stylish folks in their own clothes” featuring short interview about who they are, where they grew up, and other curiosities.

He has the sharp eye for detail combined fabulous style of portraiture. Thus, the portraits are strik-ing with these people’s excellent personal style mixed with colorful photos by Bill. Most of the photos are taken on the object’s backyard and on interesting places like the roof, street nearby, and other places that has personal attachment with the featured people. Unlike other style photographer, Backyard Bill is more ‘down to earth’. Do not expect to see famous people or style editors in his website for he prefers to feature creative faces next door with totally individual sense of style (miy).

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Have you ever wonder what’s the house of Karl Lagerfeld look like or where all those creative people live, how do their loft look like, and how do they style them up. Todd Selby is there to answer all those curiosity. He photographs the magnifi-cent spaces of all the creative people in New York, Paris, Milan, Japan, and those stylish cities all over the world.

His landscape style photos portray the owner’s personal taste of styling the space without omit-ting the attention of detail. The pictures are full of texture, diversity, and richness without being overwhelming.

His site, The Selby, introduces us to the new world of people working interesting jobs such as mixolo-gist, bakers, urban farmer, ice cream shop owner, jewelry designer, graphic communicator, a chef who own a herd of bees on his roof, and so on. Combining profile, feature, and space photogra-phy; The Selby delivers strong stories with a mix of personal touch of each individual in the photo (miy).

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David Alan Harvey begins photographing since he was 11 and goes on ever since. He starts mak-ing documentation of the lives of a black family when he was 20 and resulting a book published in 1966. He keeps going on telling stories through photographs ever since.

He is now a full member of the prestigious pho-tographic collective Magnum Photos since 1997 as well as becoming the publisher and editor of Burn Magazine, an online publication featuring the work of emerging photographers. Up to this day, he has already photographed over 40 articled for national Geographic Magazine and was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the na-tional press Photographers in 1978.

His works are aesthetic as well as delivering fine reportage; up close and personal as well as new and strange. The exquisiteness of the photo-graphs made the photo capturing and striking so hard that it hard to forget or to pass (miy).

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Even though the film has already released in 2007, Heima still become the movie with the most satisfying images for me. This movie is a docu-mentation of several tribute concerts from Sigur Ros to their homeland, Iceland; after they return from their elongated world tour. The breathtaking and mysterious landscape of Iceland has very well captured in their performances; whether it was held at a hillside or at a vast expanse of prairie. More than that, this film also hold unusual angle without being careless in placing the point of inter-est. Even the expression of the spectators feels so natural and varied here.

The rhythms of the images presented in this film are gentle and match Sigur Ros’ music rhythm perfectly. Heima (translated as “Home”) is suc-cessfully captured the romanticism as well as the magnificent beauty of Iceland. At the same time, Heima has also present Sigur Ros’ sense of longing for their home, its beauty, and its people. This film still becomes my favorite up to this second. I even unconsciously grew my desire to set my foot in Iceland because of this movie (dy).

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The movie use approximately 18 countries as its location; as a result, it gave a rich diversity of landscape quality. Even the character of this movie sometimes deliberately drowns by the far more dominant landscape in a single frame, creating a dramatic photographic scene. The angle selec-tion and the composition of this picture are very attractive because of its whimsicality. The artistic aspects consist of location setting, up to the carefully styled costumes; give certain strength and visual magnificence. Given the fact that the storyline is not that impressive, this movie always becomes my version of the most visually stunning motion picture (dy).

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“Everyone who went there had the same intention -- to recapture lost memories. It was said that in 2046, nothing ever changed. “

2046 is the example of a film that treats its pictures as words in poetry. It’s one of Wai’s skills to mix fractions of images into a cinematic form, as poetic as it sounds. Slightly-high saturated im-ages with unusual angles are carefully cooked to perfection; not too crude and not overcooked. The cameras are placed in unusual, yet very personal and familiar perspective, makes it as if someone is looking through the open window or peeking from a small hole in the wall. As a result, the lonesome, ambiance, emotions, and the drama it creates are obvious in the most delicate way.

The great many use of empty spaces, matching background with the wardrobe, gorgeous faces that pose as if they come straight out of a fashion editorial, richness in textures, and elegant color coordination; shows that detail is personally hand-picked by Wong Kar Wai himself. Do not expect to find a clean and radiant picture in this movie; it’s more likely to find moody and overwhelmingly dream-like pictures that tell a thousand stories.

The irresistible romanticism in it might sometime be tiresome and heartbreaking, but its narcotic~ you might either hate it and get disturbed, or, you might love it and demand for more. The images might linger in mind the way the emotion stays in the heart~ just like an echo (miy).

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Without dialogue, this documentary film is en-tirely depending on images to tell the story. Pur-posely, this movie successfully told a lot of stories about the early life of the babies. This movie is about the first year of four babies who came from four different side of the world: Tokyo (Mari), San Francisco (Hattie), Mongolia (Bayar), and Namibia (Ponijao). It reveals a process of the early journey of life from a human being and how environment has gently shape initial manner of a baby. Those are brilliantly captured by the camera.

This movie is rich in expressions; the expression of the babies interacting with their surround-ing, other human being, and even with animals. Furthermore, this movie has successfully captured each of the baby’s character based on his/her environment as well as the background. Every detail of the image strengthens the story till the end, molded into a complete puzzle composition, strung even without dialogue. The movie itself is very entertaining to watch. It gives the idea of how watching the beginning of a human’s life can be particularly amusing; not to mention the cute and innocent expression that always adorns the babies’ faces (dy).

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The Frankenstone is a band that has a pretty strong personal con-nection with me. Aside from the fact that the guitarist used to be my band-mate when we were still in high school; this band members are also fun to be friend with. Their wit and honesty make me comfortable to generate a photo session with them.

This band was established at the end of 2007 and currently released their second album, The Kid's Refugee from The Adult, via yes-nowave.com. The Frankenstone consist of Putro who exceptionally enjoy his double profession as musician and teacher; Gisa who feel proud and cool being labeled as 'a band member'; and Jeje who is shy and always fooled by the others.

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PutroGreen Day!They had changed my life. Before I knew them, I was just a geeky plebeian boy playing pop music all the time. Ever since I stumbled upon Green Day, my point of view to music had totally changed. I covered their music on my first stage. Not only playing their songs, I also learned about their lyrical structure and their music pattern. This thing affects me strongly in creating song and lyric now. No matter how people call them queer for showing up wearing makeup nowadays, they will always be my hero.

NirvanaThank God they disbanded before producing bad album. Kurt Cobain will always be my guitar hero. He has successfully transformed the face of Rock n Roll. Just grab your guitar and play your own song no matter how bad or good it will be.

GisaThe MuffsAh, I must try Kim Shatuck’s dresses on. She also has to style my hair like hers and I will borrow her guitar. Then, we will have a photo session to-gether where she will wear The Frankenstone t-shirt and my red G bass. Ronnie and Roy must also wear The Frankenstone t-shirts.

Black LipsIn the photo shoot, I will dress up as Pocahontas, Jared Swilley will be the head of the tribe wearing feather crown, Cole Alexander will be his assistant wearing mink skin brief, while Ian and Joe will be the cowboys wearing plaid shirt, swelter in the dessert. The background of this photo shoot is the setting of FAD’s video clip, equipped with cactus-shaped standing microphone.

JejeTransplant!Their consistency in the way the play their music and their choice of life have inspired the way I play mine. Besides, I really want to be photographed stroking Robb’s bald head. I also want to strike a pose with them, cigarette effortlessly clinging in my mouth and a bottle of beer in hand~ just like a punk-rock star...

MotorheadOnce in a while, we cover Motorhead’s songs in a rehearsal when we start to get bored with our own music. Eventually, I start to enjoy their music. After searching here and there, turns out that Motor-head is utterly cool! I would really like to play in a band till old and grey like Lemmy Kilmister.

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More than 100 years of its history, yet still there is no word that can precisely describe Street Photography. Unconventional? Chaotic? Liberated? Free?You can agree or disagree to any of it.

Like a site often quoted about the particular genre said: it might be an injustice to define the nature of street photography, due to its com-pletely non-uniform nature. Besides, do we really need an explanation about it? Would it be any good if we do?

The most basic act of photography is simply to frame the time. To freeze a situation, ‘fix eternity in an instant’ as Henri Cartier-Bresson believed. Street photography is loyal to this rule. As a technique that mostly takes the subjects in candid situation, it is almost impossible to forge or to preset the reality that transpires.

Of course, to be able to get a great picture in a chaotic nature is not an easy thing. You could take 200 shots without any of it is good enough. Sometimes Lady Luck is just not in your side. But then again, isn’t that life is all about?Another known red rule in making a good photo is distance to your subject. “If your picture isn’t good enough, you’re not close enough”, thus said Robert

Capa. To create the physical and psychological bond in a staged photography is of course doable, you have the time and you have the space.

But it’s a different case with street photography where you have just one chance to catch the moment. Time is chasing and taunting. Not to mention when the subject is a complete stranger.

Street Photography maybe is the simplest action of photography, but in the same time it is also the hardest and the most demanding. The genre got its name not only from place the photographer takes the pictures, but also from the nature of what the picture tells. The vulnerability of humans outside their safe dwellings and truths it reflected. Different lives so assorted that it might even reflect yours.

And when you find it, it would be a picture worth a thousand shots.

Note: pics are from Henri Cartier Bresson and Nick Turpin

“PHoToGrAPHY IS AN IMMeDIATe reAcTIoN,

DrAWING A MeDITATIoN.”- HeNrI cArTIer - BreSSoN -

extraordinaire in mundane avenue

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