The issue of belonging, of belonging to a country or a people, or a community and even a family is vexing. The issue is belaboured by claims about race, ethnicity, religion, language and (even) skin tone. In South Africa we most certainly have reduced belonging to skin tone, and race. Belonging has a lot to…
Category: South East Asia
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I have not been posting much on this website. I’m slowly changing that. I am, currently, posting mainly pictures to share with people in Malaysia, and as part of a geolocation tagging process. I am working on a text on Malaysia; the posts of the past two years or so are related to this project….
Novel Menu. Kampung Losong Ebeng
Graveyard of boats on Pulau Duyong, Terengganu
I’m working on texts, the chapters on the North East of Malayasia, Kelantan and Terengganu. These are some of the pictures I made. The geolocation tagging function helps identify some of the locations, as well as confirm, so to speak, that I had, actually, visited the places that I am writing about. It’s a fascinating,…
A Photograph: Gone for Solat Maghrib on Pulau Rusa
Gone for Solat Maghrib on Pulau Rusa ©Ismail Lagardien
A Landmark Photo (at least for me)
After a decade or so of wrestling myself over the use of the cellphone camera, in place of an actual camera, I passed something of a landmark in June. I had a photograph published, accompanying a short essay about maritime trade/boat-building in South East Asia. The picture was made with an iPhone. I have had…
Sitting out the Last Days of the Monsoon on Pulau Duyong
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,…