A worker is immersed in a kaleidoscope of colour while they paint traditional umbrellas in Juwiring, Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia in December 2023. The workers who spend around 8 hours a day, depending on order quantities and customer deadlines are paid around Ј200 a month. They will paint a batch over the period of two to three days until each layer of paint is dry. Extras of the traditional umbrella will be made as many tourists come to buy them. (Photo by Lia Indriani/Solent News & Photo Agency)
“A Kind of You” is a documentary work of an uncanny asian tradition, where monkeys are trained and dressed to act humanlike in order to ask money from the bypassers. Modern city culture has turned the old tradition in to eerie and haunting act of cruel street theatre where animals become something else, never able to reach our expectations”. – Perttu Saksa. (Photo by Perttu Saksa)
The Hindus of Nusa Penida, Bali, Indonesia, carry out their annual Ngaben cremation on April 4, 2022, when they place the bones of those who have died over the past year on to floating animal forms in a ceremony that is said to release the souls of the deceased. (Photo by Gede Sudika/Solent News/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
A traditional large puppet figure known as “Ondel-ondel”, wearing a face mask, performs on a sidewalk of the main road, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 4, 2021. (Photo by Willy Kurniawan/Reuters)
Relatives of victims react as a rescue worker asks them to leave an area hit by landslides in Sumedang regency, West Java province, Indonesia on January 11, 2021. (Photo by Raisan Al Farisi/Antara Foto via Reuters)
A resident pushes their motorbike through flood waters caused by torrential rain in Semarang, central Java, Indonesia on February 23, 2021. (Photo by W.F. Sihardian/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
A villager carries his injured daughter following a 5.6-magnitude earthquake that killed at least 162 people, with hundreds injured and others missing in Cianjur on November 22, 2022. (Photo by Aditya Aji/AFP Photo)