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“HOME SWEET HOME”Anton Gautama
Anton Gautama
BOOK LAUNCH
Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 7pm
Location: Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
“Home Sweet Home”, Anton Gautama, Afterhours Books
Special edition “Home Sweet Home”, Anton Gautama, Afterhours Books
Markus Schaden, founder of the Photo Book Museum discusses the book concept of “Home Sweet Home” with the photographer, Anton Gautama, Celina Lunsford, artistic director of the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt and Lans Brahmantyo, publisher and founder of Afterhours Books. Afterwards a book signing party with drinks and snacks will take place.
“Home Sweet Home”, by Anton Gautama gives insights into the Chinese-Indonesian culture through views of home interiors based in East Java and South Sulawesi: here vivid and detailed settings of modernity and history lie side by side. The photographer is fascinated with the inside of the home as if it is a book of life. “It is not easy to enter the Chinese houses, as they are very protective of their privacy”, says Anton Gautama. The unexpected visitor – Gautama – turns these minute impressions into visual statements about time, place and culture.
Anton Gautama, from the series “Home Sweet Home”, Surabaya, 2016
Anton Gautama (*1969) is a photographer based in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. He graduated with a Masters Degree in International Business from Hawaii Pacific University, USA. He later founded ALFALINK, a prominent overseas education consultancy. Since 2015 he has been working professionally as a photographer. Gautama expresses his passion through documentary photography. His photographs have been exhibited at the Goethe Institute, Jakarta and Institut Seni Indonesia in Jogjakarta. Gautama has received numerous awards for his work including Sony World Photography Awards (2017, Commended); Monovisions Photography Awards (2017, Honorable Mention) and Tokyo International Foto Awards (2016, Bronze Winner). His first monograph »Pabean Passage« (2016) reveals the milieu of traditional Indonesian spice markets through intimate colour street photography.
Afterhours Books is an international award-winning, Jakarta-based independent publisher for art, culture, design, lifestyle and wisdom. Afterhours Books publishes visually-appealing, luxuriously-designed and well-written books using premium materials. Most of the publications are in English for worldwide distribution.
FOTOGRAFIE FORUM FRANKFURT
The Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) is one of the leading centres of photography in Europe. As an exhibition space, institution and event forum the FFF deals with all aspects of photography. Since its founding in 1984 it has presented more than 260 exhibitions with historic and contemporary artists. Additionally, the programme of the FFF comprises of regular workshops, talks and discussions with internationally renowned photographers, artists and experts.
