KANTA Portraits: #KantaBorneo Miri

2017-08-04

#KantaBorneo Miri – School Visit

Students from the photography club SMK Luar Bandar Miri, a boarding school too for rural communities. I've met outstanding dedication from the photography teacher and students in the interest of learning.

Demonstration and presentation on how light and photography work. Making portraits of a few of them. I wonder how they are doing now.

explaining the physics of light

experiment

demonstration

Students of the final year of school

Huda who was with Teach For Malaysia

School Headmistress

Moses Ding Anyi (right), hope to hear from you

Home schooling in Miri town

small group of students

demonstration

physics of light

experiments

4 groups of students build their own

cardbox cameras

Huda and Sarah Lasung from Teach for Malaysia

Jeffrey JC Lim

Jeffrey Lim’s exploration into photography started with the family’s point & shoot film-camera and the stories behind their black & white photographs. It was later in art school that he discovered the magic of the darkroom and explored deeper into the craft of image-making & printing.

He started experimenting with self-made box cameras utilising pinhole and lenses, and also explored using century-old box cameras, crossing between different mediums and methods to producing an image. At the same time, he started researching his family’s roots through interviews and photographs.

After watching the Afghan Box Camera Project video in 2011, he was inspired to design and build variants of the Kamra. Starting the project Kanta Box Kamra, he built the first four prototypes. He then developed new techniques in reproduction & printing after visiting the exhibition Retrato Popular, Sesc Belenzinho, and studying the Lambe-Lambe cameras of Brasil, he built several other prototypes.

In 2017, he started Kanta Portraits to explore the concepts of identity and the national-construct. Travelling to different parts of the region and many different indigenous communities, he recorded their narratives and in return, gave instant portraits. He is currently archiving the portraits and reflecting on the journey in the hopes of producing an exhibition and publication.

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2017-08-04

#KantaBorneo Miri – School Visit