Bio
Albertus Vembrianto is a freelance photojournalist and visual storyteller who was born in South Sumatera, Indonesia. The last 8 years he has lived and focused on working in West Papua, Indonesia.
Vembri believes that practices of sustainable story and photography is an effort to look over the complexity and diversity of the problems, to ignite the facts that humans live together, relying on the sincerity of nature, as well as to remind the importance of collective responsibility over what has been damaged.
He has been assigned to investigative reports covering the Papua issues by The Gecko Project, International Women's Media Foundation and Tabloid Jubi. Vembri has also participated in exhibitions likes Photoville Festival, World Press Photo, Jakarta International Photo Festival (Jipfest), Biennale Jogja, etc.
Contact: vembriwaluyas@gmail.com
Awards & Achivements
2022. Indigenous Photographers Open Call, Pulitzer Center.
2020. Joop Swart Masterclass nominees.
2019. 6x6 Global Talent Program from Southeast Asia and Oceania, World Press Photo.
2018. Best Work. Permata Photojournalist Grant. Pannafoto Foundation
Exhibitions
> Selected group exhibitions
2022. Identity through Crises. Photoville Festival. New York, United States.
2022. Despite Extractivism. Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politic, University of Brighton. United Kingdom.
2022. Kisah Senyap. Photodemos. Jakarta, Bandung, Makasar, Jayapura, Indonesia.
2021. Space. Jakarta International Photo Festival. Indonesia.
2021. Roots < > Routes, Biennale Jogja. Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
2020. Vision 20/20: Community. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2020. The 12th Yangon Photo Festival. Myanmar.
2019. Identity. Jakarta International Photo Festival. Indonesia.
2019. Diversity. Permata Photojournalist Grant 2018. Indonesia.
2019. Indonesian Culinary. Goethe Institut, Indonesia.
2017. Reclaim Photography Festival. Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Editorial clients
The Gecko Project / Project Multatuli / BBC / Destinasian Magazine / Aljazeera/ National Geographics Indonesia / Mongabay / The Jakarta Post / Tabloid Jubi.
NGO/University clients
Pulitzer Centre / Department of Anthropology, Gadjah Mada University / Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics, University of Brighton / International Women's Media Foundation / Greenpeace / Open Society Foundations / Mensen Met een Missie / Seventy Three / Stichting Hapin / Kurawal Foundation / International Coalition for Papua / Ethnography Lab, Anthropology Faculty, University of Toronto.
Books
2021. Pagebluk di Akar Rumput, with Agoes Rudianto, Mike Eko, etc.
2018. Diversity, Permata Photojournalist Grant 2018, with Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana, Aprillio Akbar, Denty Piawai Nastitie, etc.
2016. Crita Pawitra: Candi dan Situs di Penanggungan, with Kris Budiman, Putu Sutawijaya, Transpiosa Riomandha, etc.
2015. Arca: Sepilihan Teks tentang Arca Seni Klasik, with Lydia Kieven, Mitu M Prie, etc.