Writing
Alongside books, I have written articles, essays, scripts and commissioned editorial work on Indonesian culture, history, travel and contemporary life.
Selected published work
Gamelan Bike Bike: From bicycles to gamelan
The Jakarta Post, 14 May 2019.
A story about a Vancouver collective that built gamelan instruments from discarded bicycle frames and used them as the basis for cross-cultural musical collaboration.
Outsiders
Chapter 14 in A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age, Amsterdam University Press, 2022.
An essay on photographers whose positions between cultures complicate the familiar distinction between insider and outsider.
Read about the chapter at Cambridge Core
Commissioned work
Over the years I have also written and edited material for Indonesian companies, cultural organisations and social institutions, including books, long-form narratives, exhibition and heritage material, video scripts and other English-language publications.
For enquiries, see Contact.