The Service of Sultan Palace Yogyakarta - Series #7

Servants in the Sultan’s palace, Yogyakarta
“The lives of the Abdi Dalem in the palace in Yogyakarta form a calm oasis in a world that is more and more driven by material ends.

The Abdi Dalem live a life of service. They do not work for money and for this reason the images do not depict, as it may at first appear, people ‘at work’, but rather the essence of a social identity. Each image contains a rich narrative and bears traces that point to the identity and the life of its subject.”