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On December 26th, 2005 I was flying from Saigon, Vietnam into Bangkok, Thailand. I had been covering the AIDS epidemic as well as poverty and urban slums for the past two months from both Cambodia and Vietnam and was looking forward to a week of down time with friends. The Asian Tsunami struck only moments before my plane landed in Bangkok and I was on one of the first flights to Phuket the next day. I covered the devastation from both Thailand and Sri Lanka during the following weeks. As an ex disaster specialist I still had many friends working in the filed all over the world at that time and in the year following the Tsunami I kept in close contact with them. Only months after the Tsunami struck, I began to hear stories, as I expected, of how western money coupled with the tourism industry was rebuilding Thailand with record speed while Sri Lanka and Banda Aceh, Indonesia were left with few resources. Slightly ahead of the one year anniversary of the Asian Tsunami, I decided to return to Thailand where I re-shot each image taken the year before from the exact same angle at nearly the same time of day. Unfortunately I was not able to get the funding necessary to do the same comparison project in Sri Lanka. It was another example demand and marketing concerns dictating what news reaches the public, and at the time my resources were limited by what editors and publications would pay me to shoot, as I had not yet discovered independent journalism.
Banda Aceh : I will never regret my decision to go there and volunteer for 6 weeks as an interpretor/translator after the Tsunami in 2005 .. i remember the people i met there nearly everyday ... the children i worked with in the orphanage will forever be in my heart ... i was talking to someone today about my experiences and out came the photos ... but photos will never do that place and it's incredible people any justice ...
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Memories from Aceh 2005, after the tusnami. Baiturrahman Grand Mosque is a Mosque located in the center of Banda Aceh city, Aceh Province, Indonesia. The Baiturrahman Grand Mosque is a symbol of religion, culture, spirit, strength, struggle and nationalism of Acehnese people.
Location : Lho' Nga Beach - 6th years after Tsunami
Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam
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Becak driver outside of the fish market. I have always felt uncomfortable with these due to the off-balance side seating, and a few days prior, in Pulau Weh, witnessed a pretty bad accident when the speeding becak in front of me flipped over.
Sometimes I think my lingering fascination with fish markets is due to not managing to visit Tsukiji in my very short time in Tokyo (2008).
The Apung 1 is huge electrical supply ship that was washed 3 km inland during the Boxing Day Tsunami in Aceh. It came to rest on a couple of houses, making a huge gravemarker for the residents still inside. It is now one of Banda Aceh's tourist attractions, but to date hasn't been repainted and still bares the scars of its tsunami journey inland.
The Apung 1 is huge electrical supply ship that was washed 3 km inland during the Boxing Day Tsunami in Aceh. It came to rest on a couple of houses, making a huge gravemarker for the residents still inside. It is now one of Banda Aceh's tourist attractions, but to date hasn't been repainted and still bares the scars of its tsunami journey inland.
After traveling for 9 hours from Medan city, finally I arrived in Banda Aceh in maghrib time. For a moment I try to take photos of the Great Mosque of Baiturrahman from my Hotel Room ( Hotel Sulthan )
This city is a history for me because Banda Aceh is my mother's hometown.
Along time ago..., every time I visit this town I always stay at the family home of my mother, but since the tsunami struck this town we have lost them all, more than 40 heads of my families and the villages where they lived gone by Tsunami.
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Setelah menempuh perjalanan selama 9 jam dari kota Medan, akhirnya saya tiba di Banda Aceh saat maghrib tiba. Sejenak saya mencoba mengambil foto masjid Raya Baiturrahman dari salah satu kamar yang saya tempati di hotel Sulthan.
Kota ini adalah kota sejarah bagi saya sebab Banda Aceh adalah kampung halaman ibu saya beserta seluruh keluarga besarnya.
Dulu.., setiap saya mengunjungi kota ini saya selalu menginap di rumah-rumah keluarga dari ibu saya, tapi sejak Tsunami melanda kota ini kami telah kehilangan mereka semua, lebih kurang 40 kepala keluarga beserta kampung tempat tinggal mereka hilang ditelan arus Tsunami.
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Location : Ujong Pancu ~ Banda Aceh
6th years after the tsunami
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Banda Aceh: These guys were responsible for body removal ... they used to have to sift through the rubble before the bulldozers came in ... and then after the bulldozers had been through had to sift again ... there were guys that used to just sift through what the bulldozers had picked up ... there were so many of these guys that volunteered to do this heartbreaking job and i always admired them as it was something i would never have been able to do ...
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"Published for the 2011 calendar of Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI Syariah)"
Banda Aceh is one of the capital city of Aceh, Indonesia.
The city was formerly named Kutaraja, and since December 28, 1962 the name was changed to Banda Aceh. Although the actual existence of this city have been around 799 years ago. So now as the center of government, Banda Aceh became the center of all economic activity, political, social, and cultural.
Here in this city, there are exactly 26 December 2004, the city was hit by the tsunami tidal waves caused by the earthquake on the Richter Scale at 9. This disaster took hundreds of thousands of residents and destroyed more than 60% of the building in this city. until now still unknown the exact data about the numbers of residents remaining in Banda Aceh after Tsunami.
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Kota Banda Aceh adalah salah satu kota sekaligus ibu kota Aceh, Indonesia.
Dahulu kota ini bernama Kutaraja, kemudian sejak 28 Desember 1962 namanya diganti menjadi Banda Aceh. Walaupun sebenarnya keberadaan kota ini sudah ada sejak 799 tahun yang lalu. Lalu sekarang sebagai pusat pemerintahan, Banda Aceh menjadi pusat segala kegiatan ekonomi, politik, sosial, dan budaya.
Disini di kota ini, tepatnya ada tanggal 26 Desember 2004 yang lalu, kota ini dilanda gelombang pasang tsunami yang diakibatkan oleh gempa 9 Skala Richter di Samudera Indonesia. Bencana ini menelan ratusan ribu jiwa penduduk dan menghancurkan lebih dari 60% bangunan kota ini. Hingga kini belum diketahui berapa jumlah pasti penduduk Banda Aceh pasca tsunami.
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