BALINESE MYSTICISM (Indonesia, 2003-2007)
Ghosts hover everywhere on Bali. At least that is what the inhabitants of this Indonesian island believe, who see their lives as connected with an ‘other world’. Balinese spiritual culture, a mixture of Hinduism, animism and Islam, was one of the last in the world to have developed in all isolation. Because of that, centuries-old ceremonies and rituals survive down to this day. John Stanmeyer did a photographic report using a Holga, a dirt-cheap camera that is notorious for its imperfect images. His photographs therefore appear to have been made decades ago, stressing the historicity of the spiritual culture on Bali.
