The man was painting in a booth that looked like a small gallery-like workshop

Man painting in a small gallery
Man painting
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As I walked towards a shop selling postcards in Jakarta, I came across a row of small galleries. There was an area where painters gathered on the sidewalk also on Hayam Wuruk Street, but here the place I found in Sawah Besar district was more authentic. On Hayam Wuruk Street, the painters were just laying out their works on the sidewalk, but here each painter had a small but gallery-like booth.

Each booth was like a portfolio of the artist's work. As I looked at them, I could see that each painter had a different specialty. I guessed that the painter in this photo was one of those who are good at painting portraits. There were a number of portraits on the narrow walls, including one of Fidel Castro's. As a viewer of the movie 'Act of Killing', I'm worried that it's okay to hold up a portrait that evoked communism.

The hunt for Indonesian Communists by right-wing forces, the subject of 'Act of Killing', happened in 1965. That was over 60 years ago. Nowadays, it may not be a problem to express sympathy for communism. But the key thing is that communism itself does not have the momentum it had in the past.

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PHOTO DATA

No

11612

Shooting Date

Jan 2020

Posted On

July 21, 2020

Modified On

September 1, 2023

Place

Jakarta, Indonesia

Genre

Street Photography

Camera

SONY ALPHA 7R II

Lens

ZEISS BATIS 2/40 CF

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