By Hana Oktavia A. As the great-grandchildren of native Bandanese continue to sing of a violent past, photographer Muhammad Fadli and writer Fatris MF storytell what is left of Indonesia’s spice islands through “The Banda Journal.” In Indonesia, islands stretch to vast thousands. Within it, lay a small chain of islands; one even more bountiful […]
ATAS NAMA PALA
Oleh Fatris MF Kepulauan kecil yang selama berabad-abad dicatat sebagai kepingan surga yang jatuh ke bumi, bisa berubah menjadi neraka pada satu ketika. Alasannya: di kepingan surga itu tumbuh pala, tanaman purba beraroma wangi yang dililit mitos. Genderang pelayaran-pelayaran akbar ditabuh, peta dibuat untuk menemukannya. Pala adalah tanaman yang menentukan nasib sebuah tempat. Masa Latar […]
Banda Chiroscuro
The Banda Islands are a place that has sunk, enve; oped by a deep sea. Now they have become part of a ‘languishing Indonesia’, isolated and neglected. But this is the very place that was a bone of contetntion between the ruling states of the West in times gone by. The reason was that on […]
“Jurnal Banda/The Banda Journal”
30/02/2020 “Jurnal Banda/The Banda Journal” By Muhammad Fadli, Edited by Fatris MF We’re proud to announce that we will publish new title ‘The Banda Journal’, by the photographer Muhammad Fadli, and Fatris MF. Indonesia cannot be understood solely through formulas, economic growth, bustling markets, and cities that bloom and sprawl across the landscape. Indonesia is […]
Nyanyian Tanah leluhur
Hampir setengah abad pasca pembantaian itu, pada 31 Juli 1667, sebuah perjanajian diteken di kota Breda. Belanda memberikan penguasaan atas Pulau Manhattan (kini bagian dari New York) kepada Inggris.
Muhammad Fadli: Tertampar fotografer Iran, lahirlah ‘The Banda Journal’
FNFotokita Net 01 SEPTEMBER 2016 16.01 WIB Ketika pertama kali mendapat kabar soal The Banda Journal, saya langsung merasa gembira dan jatuh cinta. Gembira, karena jujur saja, dalam pengamatan saya, proyek fotografi jurnalistik jangka panjang dengan subjek sejarah—dengan “plot bolak-balik” seperti ini—sangatlah langka. Jatuh cinta, karena proyek ini disajikan dengan begitu memikat. Namun, tentu saja, ini […]
Manhattan 400 years before
This project chronicles the aftermath of centuries-long colonization and exploitation in Banda, a remote archipelago dotted the vast sea in eastern Indonesia. Comprised of ten small islands which rarely appear on most maps, Banda was the setting of some earliest European ventures in Asia and played an important role in global economic history. It was […]