Citra's wedding - start of portrait series

The wife's neice Citra got married yesterday. A great opportunity for some portraits. I had planned on a studio set up and to shoot all in B+W. But on arrival at location there was no space so I opted to shoot against the pink wall of the house. It's interesting to see the new trend for hijab attire in the women wedding guests - something that I will be concentrating more on documenting in the coming months.

Eastward chosen for PDN Photo Annual 2012

I was really excited to see that my book Eastward was chosen in the photobooks category of the PDN Photo Annual 2012. This is particularly satisfying for me as this was fully produced here in Jakarta by R&W publishing. With design by Hermawan Tanzil and his brilliant team at Le BoYe and printing by Indonesia printer. Check out the online winners gallery

Start of new 4x5" project

After 3 months non-stop photography + travels I'm now back home, editing/processing + retouching. Its been a fun time : shooting motion at the dharmawangsa hotel in Jakarta, editorial for Monocle in yogyakarta + Afar in Bali. Some commercial work for the new Keraton at the Plaza in Jakarta, and KuDeTa in Bali. A manic 12 day architecture + interiors shoot for Wallpaper/Phaidon Jakarta city guide. A wedding and pre-wedding in Margaret river in western australia and a climb of Mount Kerinci (3805m) in west sumatra. I have dusted down my 4 x 5" and getting ready to start a personal project here in Jakarta. so nice to be working with this camera + colour neg film again!!! By July I should be able to start posting some images from this project.

Recent work - Telegraph magazine

Last september I headed off to Lampung in Sumatra to shoot a story for the Telegraph magazine. The piece focused on a cooperative of prawn farmers who unselfishly give a percentage of their income to support the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary. The farmers are also part of the Lampung Green Project which aims to replant 200,000 mangrove trees along the Lampung coast by 2015. This project is the brainchild of the remarkable Rosida Idriss an Indonesian woman based in the UK. The feature, written by Rose Prince, appeared in last weekends edition of the Telegraph magazine.

Recent work - Destinasian Feb/March edition

Last December I was in Bali shooting for Destinasian. This set out as a cover shoot with a 'blue sky'  brief. Sadly the whole day was cloudy + scattered showers and the model could'nt return for a re-shoot the next day. Hair and make up by anja buerck. Model - Agnieszka Stachowiak.

Muslim veil portrait series

Inspired by a chapter on the muslim veil in anthropoligist Andrew Beatty's excellent book " A Shadow Falls in the Heart of java " I have started a portrait series on young Indonesian women wearing the veil. I'm in the early stages of this personal project. I have shot tests using film on my 4x5" and Hasselblad. I also shot some with my Canon 5DMKII. Having reveiewed all I'm most taken by the images shot on the hasselblad. The aim is to shoot more over the coming months from different parts of Indonesia, with a view to exhibiting - and perhaps a book.

Eastward in Prestige Magazine

Some more great coverage of Eastward in the january edition of Prestige Indonesia.