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View all search results'Cerita Kami': Youth photographers with disabilities tell their stories through pictures
How a mentor introduced five disabled teens with a passion for photography to the wider world.
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D
uring a visit to Liponsos Kalijudan, a community home managed by the Surabaya Social Affairs Agency that has an art studio, four youths were busy taking pictures in the large backyard.
Amateur photographers Pina, 19, Kiking, 16, Mukidi, 14, and Jacky, 12, had just seen their photographs displayed in the “Cerita Kami” (our story) exhibition on online art gallery Melihat Bersama (see together). The group exhibition was presented like a professional photo essay, about their daily lives at the Kalijudan community home and the surrounding area.
All four youths are deaf and mute, but that hasn’t stopped them from participating in Kalijudan’s annual photography workshop over the past 5 years.
“We regularly go hunting for photo locations. Last week, we went to a traditional tofu [cottage industry] in Ngagel and a smoked fish [restaurant] in Kenjeran,” said Arief, mentioning two popular establishments in the provincial capital of East Java.
Today, however, the four were staying on the home’s premises because the fifth member of their team, 20-year-old Omay, was sick, explained photography mentor Arief Budiman.
Arief says that Omay, who has Down Syndrome, and the other four youths are all talented in photography.
