Category: Kuala Terengganu
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
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
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…