The Jakarta International Photo Summit – JIPS #3: City of Waves

in the third edition of this triennale, JiPS 2014, both the National Gallery of Indonesia and Galeri Foto Jurnalistik Antara attempt to position the theme of ‘maritime’ and ‘global maritime’ as a way to look at diversity within our own society, as well as to look at the universal maritime tradition as rumah betang — a house of peace, a meeting place of diverse ideas and commitments for a better and wiser future of our seas.
“City of Waves” is a meeting place of works by around seventy six Indonesian photographers and thirteen foreign photographers. Here we will see the visual expression of the issue close to the artists and photographers.

Fitzcarraldo is a 1983 film directed by Werner Herzog. It tells the story of a quest undertaken by Fitzgerald, adventurer and opera lover, to build an opera house deep inside the Peruvian forest. To fulfil his dream he would need a great amount of money. So, Fitzgerald attempted many things to raise the funds needed, such as acquiring a steamer to sail the Amazon, in order to t ransport rubber from one to the next.
Discussion and Film Screening: Sunday, 28 December 2014 / 15.00