Months are spent preparing for Balinese New Year's Eve, where everyone makes mega monsters out of papier-mâché to parade them through the streets.
Here we see the boys from the 3rd year high school making their creation come to life.
A very dynamic photo with lots of colour and depth. It's a photo where you can constantly discover more and it looks great in a large format.
This is the kind of work I would place myself at the top of a stairwell, somewhere you walk towards. Or at the end of a corridor.
Some more behind-ground information about Nyepi (New Year). On Nyepi day, it is the day of silence where everyone stays inside. Therefore, there is no cooking or music playing, even the lights stay off. The night before, however, is a big party with these Ogoh-Ogoh's being lifted through the streets by dozens of (often) men. They run, they jump, they scream and make these monsters fight each other by running at each other. The aim to break the monster with as much movement as possible anyway and then later that night they used to be set on fire too, but that is no longer allowed due to the plastic use in them.
Photographer and Illustrator with deep roots in Indonesia. As a young child, we travelled extensively around the world and that freedom has never left me. My main passion lies in documenting life, in its broadest form... Read more…