Author Archives: Rosalia

Adaptation and Re-invention for Survival among Food Vendors in Chonburi, Thailand by Jan Daga

This portray of the food producers and sellers in the photographer’s neighbourhood of Chonburi in the surroundings of the tourist location of Pattaya aims to show how their lives have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. All bars and tourist enterprises are closed but wet market and street vendors have been allowed to remain open. Still customers are few since there are no tourists and locals are expected to stay home. Sellers have to adapt and re-invent themselves to survive.

Organic Gardening Sustains a Distressed Community in Metro Manila by Rhon Palmera

During the lock-down in Pangarap Village, organic gardening has become a source of healthy food for the villagers. Growing some vegetables helps them reduce their livelihoods costs and their movement thus helping them to survive and reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission.

Gravediggers in Jakarta Race Against Time by Edy Susanto

Towards the end of April, under the blazing sun of Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, gravediggers in Pondok Rangon Public Cemetery wielded their shovel and dug into the ground.

Creativity Against Distress in Self-Isolation in Bangkok by Ana-Lina Thoueille

The drawings include natural elements that interrogate our capacity to put environment in the center of the political and economic agendas. But more than this, they are my personal journey through fear and insecurity to learning to live with the pandemic.

Junior Gymnastics Athlete, Ave, Exercises at Home via Digital Apps by Toto Santiko Budi

In these COVID-19 times, Ave, a member of the Gavrila Gymnastics Club in South Tangerang City, Indonesia keeps practice artistic gymnastics at home five days a week not to lose her flexibility. Only now, she has to follow instructions online via the zoom application and use home-made equipments.