Alleys and Kampung Life, the city between the streets
Away from the main roads, Indonesian cities narrow into passageways where daily life is closest to the surface.
The gang, the narrow lane, is where Indonesian neighbourhoods actually live. Between the traffic of the main streets, these passageways connect homes, warungs, workshops, and mosques, forming a quieter network that most visitors never see.
This collection is drawn from the kampung neighbourhoods of Bogor and Yogyakarta. Doorways that open straight onto the path, children watching from thresholds, neighbours talking in the space between houses, sellers working the same corner at night. Life here is shared, close, and unhurried.
What connects these images is proximity. In the alleys there is no distance between the photographer and the neighbourhood, you are inside it, and the photographs carry that closeness.
Stories behind the images
Some alleys pass in a moment. Others open into longer stories, of back lanes, old walls, and the routes people use every day.
Step into the kampung
These photographs follow the lanes of Bogor and Yogyakarta, through archways and doorways, past mosques and night stalls, into the everyday spaces where neighbourhood life carries on.
More than passageways
These images are about more than narrow spaces. They hold community, routine, faith, work, and the quiet architecture of neighbourhood life, the parts of an Indonesian city that keep moving long after the main roads go quiet.