Tirtha Tirtha

• Photographer
  Lucas Leo Catalano
• Technical Info
  Bali, Indonesia
• Photo Date
  2024

Tirtha Tirtha presents a perspective on the Balinese identity that is skeptical of there being a single "authentic" Bali today. Challenging the outdated visual identity that has become synonymous with tourism propaganda, post-colonial vanity, and populist rhetoric. Instead presenting a relativist's take to what Bali is, arguing how one's personal relationship to the island shapes their views on how they identify Balinese-ness. To illustrate, the photographs frame water as the placeholder for Bali; a visual device that reveals how the verities of peoples found on the island relate individually.