Home Sweet Home


  • Photographer
    Anton Gautama
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    Aug 2016- Jan 2017
  • Technical Info
    Phase One and Leica SL

The pictures in this series tell a story of a home for 4-generation Chinese-Indonesians and their efforts to have comfort in the simplicity of their lives. I captured houses of people whom I was not acquainted with. These houses were built in the 30s-60s when the first generation in these families emigrated from China to Indonesia to start a new life. These are the homes where they gave birth to the next generations generation who still faithfully hold to the traditions of their mother land, yet has been fully-adapted to the local Indonesian culture. These pictures silently tell the story of its dwellers, their beliefs, their way of lives, their socio-economic status, and most importantly how they choose to make this house their own. Lastly, “It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home”. A Home Sweet Home.

Story

Home is the most significant – yet one that is most taken-for-granted-- place in our lives.

The pictures in this series tell a story of a home for 4-generation Chinese-Indonesians and their efforts to have comfort in the simplicity of their lives.

I captured houses of people whom I was not acquainted with.

These houses were built in the 30s-60s when the first generation in these families emigrated from China to Indonesia to start a new life. These are the homes where they gave birth to the second generation. Since then, the second generation has had children and grandchildren of their own, the third and fourth generation of Chinese-Indonesians who still faithfully hold to the traditions of their mother land, yet has been fully-adapted to the local Indonesian culture.

These pictures silently tell the story of its dwellers, their beliefs, their way of lives, their socio-economic status, and most importantly how they choose to make this house their own.

Lastly, these pictures reminded me that it doesn’t take a luxury to create the comfort of a home. Just as the saying goes, “It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home”. A Home Sweet Home.

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