Collaborative project with Reza Saifullah
Messages From Exile
“Without mobile phones and this technology, we cannot see the world,”
~Obaidurrahman
In these intimate gestures, Messages From Exile reflects on the urgency of being seen and heard in a world quick to forget. Connection, in this context, is not just technological. It is emotional, political, and deeply human. In places where borders erase belonging and silence threatens to consume memory, even the flicker of a signal becomes an act of resistance.
“Messages From Exile”
Is a collaborative project by Reza Saifullah (he/him) and Riska Munawarah (she/her). They are a photographer duo based in Aceh, Indonesia. They have been collaborating since 2023, using photography and visual storytelling to explore social and identity issues, with a particular emphasis on the human dimensions of each narrative.