Tag Archives: Sulawesi

A Photo Back Story# 31: Sending People Fleeing.

5 Jam2000000amSun, 23 Feb 2014 10:55:19 +000014 2013 · by · in Uncategorized · 3 Comments

I had never frightened anyone to the point of fleeing me on sight until I had some of the most bizarre series of encounters in the Tanah Towa area in the south of Sulawesi, Indonesia in 1994. I arrived in Bira to photograph “pinisi perahu” ship building (right photo), once employed by Bugis pirates to […]

A Photo Back Story# 11 Photo Counterpunching

5 Jam4000000amMon, 15 Apr 2013 04:31:32 +000013 2013 · by · in Uncategorized · Leave a comment

These two photographs were made as a result of rethinking a story. The top photo was made on Sulawesi Island in Indonesia where the Bugis people build their wooden sailing ships, the pinisi perahu. The Dutch so feared Bugis pirates, the myth of the Bogey man resulted. The top photo was made in 1994 after […]