About ‘Sulphur carriers at Kawah Ijen’ by Marald Bes
Three sulphur carriers descend the rim of the Kawah Ijen crater, each with a full woven basket of yellow sulphur rock slung from a bamboo yoke.
The miners of Kawah Ijen carry up to ninety kilos of sulphur out of the crater each day, twice a day, along a path of several kilometres. To make ends meet they also sell small figurines…
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Thirty years ago, I discovered what travelling was all about, and my interest in photography grew out of that. I came home from my first round-the-world trip with 78 photographs: the humidity had ruined the rest of my rolls of film. That’s when I promised myself it would never happen again.
Ever since then, I’ve been taking photographs whilst travelling – first on film, and digitally since 2005. A photograph from twenty-three years ago can mean just as much to me as…