Familiar Faces, The Book

Thinking of making a simple photobook out of the snapshots of my close friends I've made over the years, now that they're graduating one by one... meaning I won't be able to see them as much as I used to (and want to) anymore... I don't mean to set the book as a complete and objective "recollection of memories" for each person, as it *is* only seen from my point of view... some guys will definitely appear more frequently than the others, cause I simply saw/met/hung out more with them than I did with others. Does that mean I "betray" some of them? But hasn't photography itself, as my chosen medium to portray them, been (and will always be) a subjective medium anyway?

All that thoughts aside, I'm still torn between making it as good as possible, decent sized with lotsa images (pricey!), or making it affordable so they can also get one if they want to. Or perhaps I can do both since I'm planning to print it through on-demand printing service.

Either way, the editing process is still not going anywhere... damn it I need to make a concrete deadline!

Enter Parkour

For the last 2 weeks I've been getting in contact with a parkour community in Jogja, shooting their practice session and just basically hanging around with these cool folks.

I still don't know until when I will keep shooting them and how the final output will look like, though an essay of youth urban culture in a city which is still only widely known mostly for its traditional culture is the most likely result I could think of, specially since some of the guys in this community have contacts in other urban culture communities. Perhaps I'll try to send the essay to media later on, I don't know. What I know for sure is, it's real fun to get to know new people, hearing new stories, and most of all getting a feeling that you're working at something with an aim, even when it's still rather abstract in this stage.

Here are some photos:














And for you Indonesian readers who are interested in giving this art a try, go to Parkour Indonesia forum and see if there's a group in your city with whom you can practice together. Having been around these people, I've been thinking to start practicing too...