All posts tagged: Indonesia

Identity

21 November 2015
by Arnaldo Pellini
Street photography

  I walked around Blok M in South Jakarta a couple of weekends ago. It is a busy area. It has a bus terminal with modern and very old buses, a market, an old mall, street vendors, local roadside restaurants (warungs).  I saw these three young men who walked towards a local vendor.  They seemed to wear the same style-clothes and share a similar identity.

Senayan Transjakarta station n.85

25 June 2015
by Arnaldo Pellini
Street photography

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

23 June 2015
by Arnaldo Pellini
Street photography

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 […]

Senayan Transjakarta station n.82

19 June 2015
by Arnaldo Pellini
Street photography

Friday, 19.06.2015 End of the week. Many food vendors appear in the streets of Jakarta, outside office buildings, near the sunset time. They are there when people leave their desks and are ready to break the fasting of the Ramadhan. He is one of them and before selling food to people he sat and had a small meal himself breaking his own fasting.