This is a home for the small stories I’ve photographed over the years, projects made from instinct, emotion, or curiosity. They never fit into magazines or newspapers, but they mattered to me, and I didn’t want them to grow old unseen in my archive.
So I created this first edition: a 20-page selection of short visual essays, printed in only 100 copies. It’s simple, personal, and honest, work made without commissions, deadlines, or expectations.
I’m using Blurb because living in Indonesia makes printing and shipping complicated, and Blurb offers reliable quality with affordable, secure delivery worldwide.
It’s not a polished magazine or a glossy catalogue. It’s more intimate than that. It’s a window into the work I make when no one is asking for it. A collection of moments I didn’t want to let disappear. If you enjoy photography that comes from instinct, curiosity, and personal observation, I think you’ll find something here worth keeping.
In this visceral collection of photographs, the author traces the fleeting nights of a vanished district, capturing a world where strangers collide, loneliness dissolves, and time slips out of focus. Through raw images taken during a turbulent period of his life, he reveals a place that offered temporary refuge, a space where light, sweat, and motion blurred into moments of quiet release. As the city changes and the neighborhood disappears, the book becomes both a portrait of Sanlitun’s nocturnal pulse and a record of one man’s attempt to lose, and briefly find, himself.
Lifted follows a photographer who discovers an unexpected world inside the low-resolution security screens of Hong Kong’s elevators. Through these ghostly, pixelated images, the book reveals fleeting human moments, quiet gestures, shared glances, tired postures, captured by cameras no one notices anymore. As he observes strangers drifting through surveillance grey, he confronts his own presence within these systems, realizing how often he too becomes an unseen reflection on someone else’s screen. Blending curiosity, unease, and a touch of poetry, Lifted turns everyday surveillance into an intimate study of modern urban life.