Env(y)ie - Londres - 2023.
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I spent part of my childhood in a slump in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. I knew that some of my neighbours worked at the train station, but they were not working for the railroad company.
The Yogyakarta Tugu train station area was once famous for its cheap prostitution. There was a slang word for it: "nge-bong", short for "ngenthu mburi gerbong". It's javanese for "having sex behind a train waggon". Usually in a small room or semi-permanent shack, on old mattress, and no safety.

Some years later, as an aspiring journalist for my university's press, I wanted to tell the story of the night life around the train station.
A tranvestite friend allowed me follow her to see where she worked as a sex worker.
Right by the railtrack were many commercial sex workers, in dimly lit "coffee stalls" waiting for customers. Including transvestites there too.
I hung out with her, her colleagues and occasionally I snap some pictures with her guests.
My editor didn't want to publish the story at the end, she deemed the pictures were too vulgar for a university press.

Now the train station has been sterilized by the national railway company, and many of the night life workers have moved to other places.

Photo taken on 13th April, 2006
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[ARCHIVES 2021] English Below
Je souhaite expérimenter #journaldeterrain pour questionner la recherche en train de se faire.
Que reste t-il à la fin des projets des premières impressions, des premières photographies ? Qu’oublie t -on ? Que met-on en valeur ? 
À l’instar du journal de terrain ethnographique, il s’agira d’écrire, de décrire au jour le jour les impressions et les remarques des projets menés. 
C’est aussi l’occasion d’expérimenter un journal en ligne, et d’expérimenter une autre forme qui puisse être dialoguiste. Tant pour documenter la recherche qui se fait, que pour construire un journal public, discutable avec ceux et celles avec lesquelles je travaille.

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I'd like to experiment with #journaldeterrain to explore research in progress.
What remains at the end of a project, the first impressions, the first photographs? What do we forget? What do we highlight? 
Like the ethnographic field diary, the aim is to write down impressions and observations of the projects from day to day. 
It's also an opportunity to experiment with an online journal, and to try out another form of dialogue. Both to document the research being conducted, and to build a public journal that can be discussed with those I work with.
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China

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Religion continues to play a significant role in shaping societies and public opinion, even among those who don’t follow a particular faith.

I captured this photo of a religious woman in Kyiv during the declaration of independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

A few days later, a major Russian news outlet used the same image to claim that the Ukrainian church had ceased to exist.

https://iz.ru/910071/2019-08-14/ukrainskaia-avtokefalnaia-pravoslavnaia-tcerkov-perestala-sushchestvovat

It’s a small example of how symbols and narratives are often caught in the middle of larger political and cultural disputes.

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This photo is part of a project I worked on called Favela Kombat: Girls Fight Back, and it was truly something special to be part of. I spent time visiting different favelas across Rio de Janeiro, where I met women who had all faced some form of violence, loss, or struggle. What connected them was a powerful choice they made: they decided to fight back through Mixed Martial Arts.

Each of them had a dream. Some hoped to one day step into the UFC ring. Others simply wanted to feel strong again. In a place where opportunities are often scarce, they found strength in the rhythm of training, in the sweat of each round, and in the sisterhood they built along the way.

As a photographer, I was there to document it all. But more than taking photos, I left with stories, lessons, and a deep admiration for their resilience. These women showed me that fighting back isn't just about fists. It's about reclaiming who you are, one punch at a time.

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