Thursday, 16 August 2012

'It's not like pulling teeth' a Gonzo photographic Journalism approach

The ceremony 'Masangi Matata' or 'Potong Gigi' is a ceremony generally carried out around the age of sixteen. It's a culmination of ceremonies required in the journey into man or womanhood. Subsequent ceremonies unless you are to become a preist, include weddings and finally, cremation. In some cases the ceremony is held in the privacy of ones home incurring massive cost to the family. The economical way is to become part of a ceremony of far grander...

Monday, 6 August 2012

Twisted Fissures

Bali's roads are littered with traffic and lined with a never ending sprawl of constructed similarity.  What lay behind those blockades of beauty, we pass without thought or wonder, heading only on A - B journeys that do not allow for the spontaneity required to experience the truly obscure and wonderful. Maybe that's what this array of images speaks to you, maybe it's just a mad frenchman in a backstreet, makeshift steel works...