Meet Mangku Gede

Meet Mangku Gede

Day: 9 Distance covered: 815 km (506 miles) Subjects found: 3 Yesterday we located Mangku Gede Wayan Artha, the third of our subjects, and the easiest of all to find. Mangku Gede is a Hindu priest and, as it turns out, a very highly esteemed figure on that part of the...
Meet Bedul

Meet Bedul

Day: 7 Distance covered: 591 km (367 miles) Subjects found: 2 When I first launched The Human, Earth Project in March, I identified ten people that I expected to be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to find. Six of those people were photographed here on the...
Meet Bedul

A reason to believe

Day: 5 Distance covered: 502 km (312 miles) Subjects found: 1 Today was the second day of the search for the five young men in this photograph. The day was spent chasing suspicions and rumours through the lost villages of rural Lombok, the island east of Bali. It...

Meet Wayan

Day: 1 Distance covered: 127 km (79 miles) Subjects found: 1 No amount of planning was able to prepare me for the reality of finally finding the boy that we were looking for.  This one will be easy, we told ourselves. We’ll find the well, and the boy won’t...
Tsunami season

Tsunami season

Day: 0 Distance covered: 40 km (25 miles) Subjects found: 0 We build a barrier of fear around these unfamiliar places. We’re told to beware of the seafood, the salad, the water, the ice, local transport, thieves and hustlers. We prepare ourselves with vaccines,...

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