Yeh Bali

Yeh Bali (2022 - current) is a photo series that presents a portrayal of Bali, Indonesia that is sceptical of there being a singular “authentic” Bali today. Challenging the outdated visual identity that has become synonymous with tourism propaganda, post-colonial vanity, and populist political rhetoric. Specifically photographed during the tourist low-season, the rainy season, to showcase Bali in its least performative. Highlighting the kaleidoscope of globalised peoples that coexisting on the island, each making their own claim to "authenticity". Compiling scenes that reflect back to the viewer their own subjective relationship to Bali. Suggesting the relationship between identity in out contemporary world is far more relativistic than singularly "authentic" - fundamental to the photographer's own personal claim, as a third-culture child of Indonesia, in calling Bali home.