East Timor in photo display

JAKARTA (JP): The eight-year-old Jakarta Photographers' Society will exhibit 150 pictures on East Timor and its people's daily life.

The color and black and white photos, snapped by 13 members of the club, will be on show in a four-day expo beginning Thursday at Taman Ismail Marzuki, on Jl. Cikini Raya, Central Jakarta.

"Foreign Minister Ali Alatas has confirmed he will open the exhibition," FJ Mawati, a club executive, announced at a press meeting over the weekend.

Titled A Brief on East Timor, the public exhibition aims to portray accurately the atmosphere of the province and images and stories of life there, said Mawati.

The pictures were of East Timor's unpolluted beauty, senior residents, local traditional sports and young and old East Timorese going about their daily lives.

Mawati said the pictures were selected from hundreds of prints taken by club members, who are amateur and professional photographers, on a recent trip to the former Portuguese colony.

There will be photos by noted photographers Darwis Triadi and Kayus Mulia.

Darwis said at the meeting the photos would be sold at Rp 300,000 each.

The Jakarta Photographers Society, known as JPS, has 50 members, most of whom are amateurs in photography but professionals in their respective jobs. (bsr)