Dirty Coal Mining in Borneo for PublicEye Magazine, September 2023 Issue

Photo and aerial video work for PublicEye, a Switzerland-based journalism NGO which focuses on troubling practices by Swiss companies all over the world. On this piece, I traveled to Borneo to document coal mining owned by IMR and Mercuria. The resulting images are published on the September issue of the magazine (also on the cover).

Story excerpt:
Giving the mining sector carte blanche has enabled Indonesia to become a top coal exporter in the space of a decade. Public Eye travelled to the heart of the world’s second-largest tropical forest, to a village inhabited by the Dayak indigenous group. Since 2019, inhabitants have been struggling with a mine operated on behalf of a Swiss conglomerate. Land grabbing, contamination of air and water: coal is a partial and capricious king.

Written by Adria Budry Carbo

Read the story online here (best view on desktop)

Assignment via Panos Picture

Sidney Jones Portrait for Mekong Review

Portrait of Sidney Jones, the founder and director of the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), a Jakarta-based organisation that produces minutely detailed reports on violence in Southeast Asia. Taken for Mekong Review August 2019 issue.

Read the full article here.

Rebel Riders published on Esquire Russia

Rebel Riders is published for the pages on Esquire Russia June 2019 photo feature.

Rebel Riders published on National Geographic

So happy to see ‘Rebel Riders’ is published on National Geographic Picture Stories, accompanied by an insightful writing by Maria de la Guardia.

Read the full story on National Geographic website.

Rebel Riders published on Smith Journal Vol.30

Smith Journal, an Australian-based publication, published a 6 pages feature of ‘Rebel Riders’ along with an interview regarding the process behind the project on its 30th issue. It will be available on the newsstand until the end of May 2019.

My First Photobook: Rebel Riders

It’s really unexpected that my project ‘Rebel Riders’ about the Indonesian Extreme Vespa community is becoming my very first monograph. The project was initially started only early last year during my participation of Obscura Photofestival’s Southeast Asian Photography Masterclass under mentorship of Jörg Brüggemann and Tobias Kruse. During the course of the project, my love of the subject started to grow. So after the masterclass was over I decided to continue the project. I wouldn’t say that the photographs only will be amazing, but it’s also because the one who designed it: Calin Kruse from Dienacht

Below are some sample pages from the photobook and also the newsprint index. The book is currently available for pre-order here. If you order it now before November 4, there will be a lot of extras coming along with the book (including free fine art print).

Muhammad Fadli: Rebel Riders
First Edition, 2018
Publisher: dienacht Publishing
Book: Hardcover, clothbound with embossed image and foil stamping on the cover and back cover
Size: 20x28 cm, 128 pages
Supplement/index: 26x36 cm, folded, 24 pages
Photography: Muhammad Fadli
Book design: Calin Kruse /FLUUT Grafik-Design
Collaboration: Yana Kruse

Das Magazin Reportage Won Real21 Media Prize

Congratulations to Paula Scheidt for winning Real21 Medienpreis (Real21 Media Prize) for the feature about Indonesian Islamic Boarding school title ‘Was Ist Ein Guter Muslim’ (What is a Good Muslim). The original feature was published earlier this year in Das Magazin

Although the award is for the writing, I am super happy to shot and worked alongside Paula for this piece. Assigned by Dorothea Fiedler from Studio Andreas Wellnitz.

View fullsize

View fullsize

Rebel Riders in Silkwinds

Rebel Riders, my project about Indonesian so-called extreme vespa community has just been published in Silkwinds, Silk Air Inflight Magazine, June 2018. It includes some new images that I just shoot and developed recently.