• idiot village

      Idiot Village* I will never call someone an “Idiot” because his/her mental capabilities could be judge as shorter, or because a person have expression problems or any incapability physical or mental. In Karangpatihan, a small village in Ponorogo (Java, Indonesia), “Idiots” are the kids, the husband, or the father or mother who can not [...]

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  • DESANGELADAS

    “Ángeles ya no es lo que era. Antes echabamos partidas de poker y debajo de la mesa había una chica haciendo mamadas, lo divertido era imaginarse a quien se la estaba chupando; o cuando poníamos las propinas a las bailarinas de la barra, que se dejaban apilando unos cuantos centavos encima del botellín de cerveza, [...]

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  • IJEN

    Early May I went to Surabaya, via Yogyakarta, from Jakarta, where I have my small rent house. I went 15 days earlier the date of a private workshop was going to be done the 14th and 15th of May to do a first meeting with the organizer who wanted me to teach some photography. The [...]

    Ijen worker in a foggy day
  • ludruk

    The story of my Ludruk essay started exactly one year ago. I was doing an interview for The Light Magazine with Ignatius Untung as journalist at the end of my first trip to Indonesia, in 2010. He suddenly started to talk about different powerful photo stories and one of them was Ludruk. I suddenly felt [...]

    Ludruk 1
  • An Interview with Diego Vergés for “PhotoCreator/Advanced Images” by Steve Chong

      An Interview with Diego Vergés for PhotoCreator/Advanced Images by Steve Chong 1.    What does photography mean to you? Now a days photography means most of all I do everyday. That is because taking pictures give two very important things. In one way it is a challenges to create. I have the issue, I have [...]

    Anang, Tirta and Diego
  • Awards

    First photography black and white award 2008 Diputación de Burgos Since I started in travel photography, almost three years ago, I have self  finance my trips. I just travel with the aim of doing the reportages I want and the way I want to do them. Accesit III Photography award “Mujer y fotografia” de Cartagena [...]

    Luis Ksado Award 2010
  • PUBLICATIONS

    When you do self sponsor photo projects, publications are always a perfect incoming to get some of the money you have invest back. But to publish your photos it’s not always easy, first of all you have to know how to approach the editors of the magazines and that’s hard if you have no contacts. [...]

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  • Viaje a Baliem Valley (spanish)

    Breve articulo que escribí para ojodigital.com Hace ya dos años que decidí dejar mi trabajo, y tenía un contrato y todo! Había terminado la universidad y durante 9 meses estuve encargado de unos platos de video y fotografía. No era divertido, era repetitivo, y lo peor de todo, no aprendía nada. Mientras tanto, un amigo [...]

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  • BALIEM VALLEY

    I went to Baliem Valley this February 2010, I spent one entire month there because things happened in the valley really slow. Baliem Valley is in the highlands of the center of Irian Jaya (Estate of Indonesia), which is the half west part of the Island New Guinea. The East half is an independent country [...]

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  • AU GABON

    This was my first photography serie, I did it in the summer of 2008. It was the first time I traveled for a long period to a new country and it was going to be the first travel using a digital camera, which I bought 2 years before in the winter of 2006. I used [...]

    Atongowanga
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idiot village

  Idiot Village* I will never call someone an “Idiot” because his/her mental capabilities could be judge as shorter, or because a person have expression problems or any incapability physical or mental. In Karangpatihan, a small village in Ponorogo (Java, Indonesia), “Idiots” are the kids, the husband, or the father or mother who can not [...]

IMG_2829

DESANGELADAS

“Ángeles ya no es lo que era. Antes echabamos partidas de poker y debajo de la mesa había una chica haciendo mamadas, lo divertido era imaginarse a quien se la estaba chupando; o cuando poníamos las propinas a las bailarinas de la barra, que se dejaban apilando unos cuantos centavos encima del botellín de cerveza, [...]

Ijen worker in a foggy day

IJEN

Early May I went to Surabaya, via Yogyakarta, from Jakarta, where I have my small rent house. I went 15 days earlier the date of a private workshop was going to be done the 14th and 15th of May to do a first meeting with the organizer who wanted me to teach some photography. The [...]

Ludruk 1

ludruk

The story of my Ludruk essay started exactly one year ago. I was doing an interview for The Light Magazine with Ignatius Untung as journalist at the end of my first trip to Indonesia, in 2010. He suddenly started to talk about different powerful photo stories and one of them was Ludruk. I suddenly felt [...]

Anang, Tirta and Diego

An Interview with Diego Vergés for “PhotoCreator/Advanced Images” by Steve Chong

  An Interview with Diego Vergés for PhotoCreator/Advanced Images by Steve Chong 1.    What does photography mean to you? Now a days photography means most of all I do everyday. That is because taking pictures give two very important things. In one way it is a challenges to create. I have the issue, I have [...]

Luis Ksado Award 2010

Awards

First photography black and white award 2008 Diputación de Burgos Since I started in travel photography, almost three years ago, I have self  finance my trips. I just travel with the aim of doing the reportages I want and the way I want to do them. Accesit III Photography award “Mujer y fotografia” de Cartagena [...]

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PUBLICATIONS

When you do self sponsor photo projects, publications are always a perfect incoming to get some of the money you have invest back. But to publish your photos it’s not always easy, first of all you have to know how to approach the editors of the magazines and that’s hard if you have no contacts. [...]

IMG_9282III

Viaje a Baliem Valley (spanish)

Breve articulo que escribí para ojodigital.com Hace ya dos años que decidí dejar mi trabajo, y tenía un contrato y todo! Había terminado la universidad y durante 9 meses estuve encargado de unos platos de video y fotografía. No era divertido, era repetitivo, y lo peor de todo, no aprendía nada. Mientras tanto, un amigo [...]

IMG_0323III

BALIEM VALLEY

I went to Baliem Valley this February 2010, I spent one entire month there because things happened in the valley really slow. Baliem Valley is in the highlands of the center of Irian Jaya (Estate of Indonesia), which is the half west part of the Island New Guinea. The East half is an independent country [...]

Atongowanga

AU GABON

This was my first photography serie, I did it in the summer of 2008. It was the first time I traveled for a long period to a new country and it was going to be the first travel using a digital camera, which I bought 2 years before in the winter of 2006. I used [...]