Luck brings prize

Luck brings prize

JAKARTA (JP): When lady luck smiles on you, you can even turn
misfortune into millions of deutsche mark (DM). It happened to
Toto Raharjo, a photographer from Yogyakarta, who won the first
prize of a photography contest held last year by the German
embassy with the theme "Germany-Indonesia: The meeting of two
cultures."

"I got only a second to take this picture. I tried to take a
second shot, but I found that there was no more film left," Toto
explained about the winning picture entitled Trying to understand
each other which he took at Yogyakarta's Kraton (royal palace).

The picture depicts two men, an expatriate wearing a tie and
carrying a tape recorder and a Javanese man wearing a surjan
Javanese costume, in conversation.

"I took it with black and white film, but I developed it with
color photo processing," Toto told German Ambassador to Indonesia
Heinrich Seemann who presented the prizes yesterday.

For the winning photo Toto received DM 2,000. The second and
third prizes were respectively won by Hariyanto, a photographer
of the Jawa Pos daily, and Klaus Dauselt, a German who is
temporarily based in Flores, East Nusa Tenggara. (als)