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[ The Drama of Daily Life ]
Series - Analogue Documentary
Pentax P30 / Kodak Portra 400
Lombok, Indonesia
July, 2023

Before this trip to Indonesia, a couple of jobs cancelled, a lot of time on my hands, I wanted to push my photography somewhere new. So I started playing, experimenting, and decided to give the image a concept: not just to capture a beautiful moment or a landscape, but to give it meaning. To make it do something to the person looking.

Here I went for the honest approach, seeing without being seen. Anticipating, waiting, watching for the moment when every element in the frame lines up in exactly the right way (or almost). Catching the pulse of life. The drama of daily life.

By "drama" I don't mean anything negative. The dictionary defines it as "an event from real life, capable of deeply interesting and moving us", and that's the goal: to catch a real moment that genuinely moves you. (Also: nobody knows how hard it is to shoot from a moving motorbike.)

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