Fadli Syuhada

currently living and working in Jakarta, Indonesia. I’ve always had an interest in art and expressing myself creatively. I realized pretty early on that I wasn’t cut out for the traditional artistic mediums… I was an awful painter and even worse at drawing. Photography was a very accessible art form for me, and something just sort of clicked in me when I first picked up a camera. It felt very natural for me, and I used it to tell the stories that I’ve always wanted to tell but didn’t have the ability previously. Well, when I first began taking photographs, I used myself as the model mostly out of convenience. I didn’t always have someone else there to take picture of, and even if I did, I still preferred to photograph myself because I was still wasn’t confident in my work and didn’t feel comfortable showing it to anyone I knew. My self-portraiture just sort of blossomed from there, and it has become a staple of my work today. The characters I portray in my self-portraits and the ideas behind them almost never come from personal experience. Many of my pictures have a sad quality to them or are very emotional, but I’ve always had a rather dull life.