Yogyakarta: Street Mythology

Seri foto “Yogyakarta: Street Mythology” adalah sebuah portfolio fotografi dari fotografer Rama Surya, tentang Yogyakarta sebagai sebuah entitas budaya. Dibuat selama dia tinggal di kota Pelajar itu, antara pertengahan 1998 hingga tahun 2000.

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Rama Surya, born in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra in 1970. After graduating from his journalistic studies at the Dr. Soetomo Institute in Jakarta in 1995, Rama Surya published his remarkable photo essay “Yang Kuat Yang Kalah (The Strong Ones are the Beaten Ones”), published by Gramedia Press in Indonesia in 1996. Other photo essays include a report on the East Kalimantan, Borneo, forest fires which made him also known in Europe, and which was shown on the occasion of the Bieler Fototage ’98. His work on the “Yogyakarta Street Mythology” was exhibited at the Nikon Image House Gallery in Kusnacht/Zurich in 2000, two years after having been rated “Photographer of the Year 1997” by the German fotoMagazin.