The street tailor was working under a colorful parasol in a residential area

Sewing machine under a parasol parasol
Shot in Jakarta, Indonesia
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I turned aside from the main street and went back into the residential area of Jakarta. I don't know the whole city of Jakarta, but I feel that the width of the streets in this city is extremely different from the main streets. Except for the main street, everything else feels like an alleyway.

As I walked down the street between the walls of dwellings, the street became even narrower as someone put out a large parasol at the end of the already narrow street. Underneath the colorful parasol lay an old sewing machine. It was a street tailor.

By the way, there are many tailors in Jakarta's residential areas. Most of them work with a sewing machine on the street. How many tailors have I seen in my travels? Jakarta seems to be a different world from the old Japan, where every household had a sewing machine and mothers did the sewing. It seems to me that sewing is not done at home, but is outsourced to outside parties. That's why I can see sewing machines on the streets here and there when I walk through a residential area.

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PHOTO DATA

No

11670

Shooting Date

Jan 2020

Posted On

September 16, 2020

Modified On

November 10, 2021

Place

Jakarta, Indonesia

Genre

Street Photography

Camera

SONY ALPHA 7R II

Lens

ZEISS BATIS 2/40 CF

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