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View all search results‘Field Insights’: Seeing the everyday through ethnographic lens
Visual series created by young people blends social research with visual storytelling, bringing academic inquiry into intimate, accessible frames.
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Life beside death: A still photo from Mengiringi Kematian (Accompanying Death) by Abyan Madani shows a group of goats at a public cemetery, highlighting the two contrasting facts, life and death, that will always exist side by side. (Instragram/Atmakanta/-)
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racks in the floor, patched walls and a cupboard strapped to the wall stand as silent witnesses to the 7.5-magnitude earthquake that struck Palu, Central Sulawesi, in 2018.
Besides the visible damage to his home, Irzan, a 31-year-old who runs a community reading space in Tipo subdistrict, Palu, has lived in a constant state of alert since the quake. He never locks his bedroom door when he sleeps. Books on disaster preparedness sit on the table beside his bed.
These lingering traces are captured in a three-minute short film, Lari ke Timur (Running to the East), by Nur Amri Firmansyah, an anthropology student at Tadulako University in Palu.
Born and raised in Palu, Nur Amri explores how disasters affect daily routines, habits and the way people plan their futures.
“What does it feel like to live in a city prone to earthquakes? That question led me into many situations, including feelings of safety, trauma, alertness, fear, preparedness and moments of normalcy,” Nur Amri said.
His work is part of the visual ethnography series Field Insights developed by Atmakanta, a Jakarta-based visual ethnography agency founded in 2021. In its first season, titled Postponing the Future, researchers explore how people plan the future while navigating the tension between leaving the past and living in the present.
Nur Amri’s film is featured on Atmakanta’s Instagram account alongside two other works.
