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ADPARA>Just when the world seemed to have forgotten about the Asian tsunami, an earthquake hit Nias, a small island off Aceh, on Dec
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ADPARA>Just when the world seemed to have forgotten about the Asian tsunami, an earthquake hit Nias, a small island off Aceh, on Dec. 28, 2005. The extraordinary images that came out of Nias in the aftermath of the disaster and during reconstruction shaped its visual identity over time.
More than two years on, Risang Yuwono, a photography student at the Jakarta Institute of the Arts, set foot on Nias for the first time. Not wanting his work to conform to a preconceived image of the island, Risang tried to forget the pictures he had seen in coffee-table books, on postcards and in magazines. His photographs give us a broader look at Nias as a landscape that is rich in aesthetic and human diversity.
--Photos by Risang Yuwono
Text by Alex Supartono
