Anna’s Travel

A photographic journal · Java, Indonesia

Anna’s
Travel.

Thirteen frames from a single trip — the green hush of rice paddies in the afternoon, a river hurrying past coconut palms, and a night spent walking through a garden made entirely of light.

By Anna Yuriska 13 photographs Two chapters
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Chapter I

By Day

The day moves slowly here. Water finds its level, palms lean toward it, and the paddies do what paddies do — sit perfectly still, holding the sky.

A circular fountain in the Bogor botanical garden, ringed by red brick paths and clipped hedges, palms rising in the background.
01 The fountain at the garden Kebun Raya Bogor
A fast-running river seen between the trunks of coconut palms.
02 Through the palms A river in West Java
A wider view of the same river, stones in the foreground and a stand of banana plants on the far bank.
03 The bend Where it turns south
Bright green rice paddies under a wide sky stacked with white cumulus clouds.
04 Big sky over the paddies Somewhere on the way
Lower view of rice paddies, the green so saturated it looks lit from inside.
05 The greenest green Late afternoon

Field note: it had rained the night before, and everything — leaves, brick, the brim of the fountain — was still polished.

Chapter II

By Night

And then, the lights. Half a million of them, planted in the grass like flowers, arching overhead like rain caught mid‑fall. We didn’t talk much — just walked.

A neon archway reading 'Lights Wonderland' under a black sky, crowds silhouetted in front of it.
06 The gate Lights Wonderland, after dark
Two illuminated planets, Jupiter and the moon, set on a hill of glittering blue lights.
07 Two planets, a thousand stars The cosmos installation
Inside a tunnel of rainbow-coloured fairy lights, fanning out overhead.
08 Inside the prism Walking through
A fountain at night, ringed by a field of glowing tulips in red, yellow and pink, with visitors gathered around.
09 A pond of electric tulips Around the fountain
Pink lanterns photographed in motion, smearing into ribbons of colour.
10 Pink, moving A long blink
Hundreds of luminous blue tulips lining a path that curves toward a hillside of multicoloured lights.
11 The blue path Following the curve
A diorama of a tropical sunset framed in a circular window, palms and figures in silhouette.
12 A sunset, framed The last installation
Wide view of the lights park at night: fountain, planet, illuminated paths and crowds of visitors.
13 Everyone, all at once A Saturday in the park

About this journal

Anna’s Travel is a small, slow-growing diary of places. The photographs are taken on a phone, kept mostly as they fell out of the camera, and gathered here so they can stop living inside it.

— Anna Yuriska

Set in Fraunces & Inter Issue Nº 01 MMXXVI