Layers of Indonesia

In these photographs from Indonesia, a subject’s surroundings are part of the composition. Movement and shape create visual connections between living subjects and the layers around them. The project brings those relationships together at different scales, showing how repeated forms and overlapping details give each scene its structure.

20 photographs

An overhead view follows curved cultivated terraces around palms and a narrow vegetated channel.

Cultivated terraces and palms extend towards mountains partly hidden by low cloud.

A group in white tops and bright red and yellow garments moves before a decorated stone gate.

Glowing red streaks mark a volcanic cone beneath a rising plume and stars.

Tall stone temple towers rise beyond scattered blocks and visitors.

Perforated stone stupas repeat across a terrace beneath a warm opening in the clouds.

A distant temple rises beyond layered palms and woodland under a pale sky.

A long-tailed monkey sits on a branch outlined against a pale blue sky.

An orangutan hangs with extended arms and legs among leafy branches.

A reddish animal body and an extended arm appear behind dense leaves and pale trunks.

A long-snouted crocodilian rests on a log with its jaws open above the water.

A red-billed bird perches on a curved branch among green leaves.

A seated monkey looks towards the camera while holding a branch among backlit leaves.

A long-nosed monkey braces on a diagonal branch among crossing limbs and leaves.

A green snake coils around branches with its head turned towards the camera.

An orangutan grips a pale tree trunk with hands and feet amid dense leaves.

An orangutan reaches upward with an open palm while other limbs brace against a tree.

An orangutan hangs by both arms among sunlit branches and dense leaves.

An orangutan is silhouetted among branches, with warm light edging its fur.

An overhead view shows many streams dropping into a green-sided basin with a faint rainbow below.