Category: South East Asia
The artisanal craft of boat-building in South East Asia is dying
Architecture: Malaysia’s Mosque of Steel
Over the last days of my most recent visit to Malaysia, I made an unscheduled stop at the Steel Mosque, the colloquial name for the Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Mosque, in Putrajaya, the administrative capital of Malaysia. I carried only the iPhone, and thought it best to be discreet. I made a few pictures. See,…
Paved Paradise
Chickens in Peril
I ventured into Siti Khadijah Market in Kota Bharu, and emerged with a bad (airborne) virus that laid me down for a week, and a set of pictures made with the mirrorless Nikon Z6ii. It felt good to be behind viewfinder, again. Some way to go, yet, with the “post-production” options, filters and frames. I…
Back at the muddy confluence of the Klang and Gombak
The picture, above, is of a view (and angle) of the city of Kuala Lumpur I had not seen before…. The skyline represents the growth of the city over the past 34 years since my first visit. There was a time, in the late 1990s, when the KL tower and the Petronas Twin Towers were…
The image in support of text
One of the issues I am currently writing about, and that I will include in the current project, is the way that parts of the cities, of the built-environment, in Kota Bharu and Kuala Terengganu, are dying, or left to decay. This death and dying, and what is probably wilful neglect, or considered unimportant, is…
Wall Art in Kuala Terengganu
The Palestine Art Corner: Outdoor Gallery of Wall Art in Kota Bharu
The outdoor Palestine Art Gallery brings the suffering of Palestinians to the public in an alley in, Jalan Dato’ Pati, in Kota Bharu, in Malaysia.
Nusantaran Boat Building and South East Asian Maritime Trade Routes
I arrived at Pulau Ketam a day after a completed boat had been launched. What remained were remnants of the craft. The workers had all retired to the Kampung in preparation of the evening prayers. ©ismaillagardien Sea explorers from Nusantara set foot on the African Continent through Madagascar since the early days of Christian era…