idealita ismanto

Idealita Ismanto (36 years) born in Yogyakarta, is a documentary photographer based in Surabaya. My  art-social work focuses on community empowerment, women, children, culture and visual diaries of family. I graduated from Indonesian Art Institute of Yogyakarta (2008) and have a  master’s degree in art education from University of Surabaya  (2018).

I have worked for 16 years as a professional photographer and volunteer using photography to empower women and children, and promoting diversity in collaboration with National and International NGOs as well as UN agencies in Indonesia especially UN Women to do empowerment program for the victims of the Aceh Tsunami, OXFAM to do monitoring program with the beneficiarie, WVI  to encourage children's participation in doing urban farming, PLAN International doing the trauma recovery process for children who were victims of natural disasters in Yogyakarta, INFID, Indonesian Family Planning Association (PKBI), Indonesian Women's Coalition. In addition, I am also non-permanent lecturer in photography at a university.
My photos have been published in fotodemic, photographerinsolation, massisolationformat, pandemic adjustment, and on angkor social media in the angkor alumni curates program festival