All posts filed under: Street photography

Cycling to work in Jakarta: can we start to hope?

Street photography / Travel photography

Even though this is Jakarta, I cycle every day to work. Last week, I think it was Wednesday, I rode my usual route to the office where I work. I started in Kebayoran Baru, got into the traffic logged Antasari, then up to Senopati before getting on the footbridge at the Senayan Transjakarta bus station over Jalan Sudirman. It takes me about 20 minutes to get to the office and I saw not one, but two other cyclists on […]

Senayan Transjakarta station n.85

Black and White / Street photography / urban

Thursday, 25.6.2015 Even if I have been taking photos for about six months in this place, I never saw this angle. Right at the middle of the overpass bridge there is ramp that goes down to almost the street level, where there are the gates where people press their electronic bus cards before jumping on the busses. Some people walk fast. Some walk slow. This evening I did not see people who were in a rush. […]

Senayan Transjakarta station n. 83

Black and White / Street photography / urban

Monday, 22.6.2015 There is a large building site next to the overpass I walk everyday to get to my office, at the Senayan Transjakarta station. A project started a year or so ago with to bring a mega MRT underground and overground train system to Jakarta. I spotted these two guys just inside the fence that separates the building site from an heavy traffic road, Jl. Sudirman. One seemed concentrated in putting together plans and design papers (for the MRT?). The […]