Laki |Laxter| Gushary

All is lost with nothing fulfilled. All these years and still can not pick up the pace. Nothing is as it seems, just a big failure at heart. Start changing to stop disappointing people who matters the most, biggest of all, stop disappointing yourself. Don't get blinded by only the fantastics in life. Until then, you deserve nothing more than you get.

"if you can't speak it out, then write it out," - Ms.C

Yep.. it's been 4 months since my last post. Was (or still) pretty much occupied by a non-photography related project called "Coffeebeerian" with some friends of mine. It has consumed my time to the seconds that it left an impression that I "almost" have no life outside of Coffeebeerian.

Well anyways, this was an article for Amica Indonesia for their travel section, covering Seoul, South Korea from it's fashion and arts aspect. Originally went to Seoul for my sister's wedding reception back in mid April when sir Hansel Mario, my former on-set handyman (whom now works for Amica Indonesia), contacted me and told me that they needed a coverage on Seoul fashion travel to compliment the "Korean Wave" that's been over-swarming this country's fashion and music trends. So heck, why not extend my stay and explore a little bit about the Korean local's trend. It turned out that having stayed some extra days has led me to book a test shoot with one of Korea's modeling agency. Wait.. it even gets better, I've also managed to put up a shoot with some local models for my personal project!

Overall it was a pleasant trip, from the reception, the shoots, the explorations and through the nightlife scene in Hongdae. Can't hardly wait for my next visit.
........[stay put for the shots from the test-shoot & more].......

In memory of the late Steve Jobs, the team over at iCreate magazine decided to do an editorial story in honouring the great inventor of apple computers. During his reigning years, Jobs contributed not only to the technology world, but also in fashion. That's right! he had created his signature look of black + denim persistently since over the last decade. Personally, I had much pleasure doing this particular shoot because they had given me control of the direction of how the shots are put together. And here are the final images!

Models: Jonathan Felix (Fame), Maria Del Carmen (Posh)
Stylist: Kay Mori
MUA: Billy Krisna
Photo assistant: Rickey Hamdani
Photography & Direction: Laki Gushary

Here are the final images of iCreate Indonesia editorial shot done some times ago. A real  life fighter: featuring  Rahayu Saraswati.


Model : Rahayu Saraswati
Styling : Kay Mori
Hair & MUA : Billy Krisna
Photography Assistant : Hansel Mario Widjaya





Be sure to check out behind the scenes photos, we had such fun shooting this one with such a great team.

Here are some B.T.S. shots taken by sir Hansel Mario at 10 Studio during the shoot for Interview section of iCreate Indonesia magz. Got the chance to shoot with actress Rahayu Saraswati, she's a natural in acting out the concept :) We had a wonderful team to work with.


It was much fun on set, it's good to be

Free spirited (or "on garden leave") Nez Dn, A.K.A ms. complaint

Howdy net lurkers..
Well.. we all know how much we hate it when we can't express our thoughts in words, illustrations or whatever else that works for us. A writer's block so to say, or temporary brain dead for us who are in the creative industry.

Some times ago a close friend of mine, Nez (which happens to be a writer!) asked me a favor to shoot her (no.., not in that violent manner xp ). So we finally managed to arrange one! After a brief but tense discussion, we wound up with a shoot around the theme of hippies and throw a pen and a notebook to the act while at it. The hippies theme somewhat describes

Went to Sigma's workshop last Sunday. Man, have I not been attending one of these things for the few past years. As usual, it was Sir Hansel Mario who invited me to this workshop. So I figured it should be a fun Sunday morning activity kind of thing.. then the twist begins..


It was around 10 am and we were greeted by minions of camera wielding warriors of some 140 strong, lurking around an old dutch cemetery! LOL.. They already started taking pictures when we got there. 6 models provided for that day and each model was being framed by around 20-ish photographers (or even more). Taken by the similar angles and of the same poses! A reminder just struck me about this type of situation is that kept me from going to such workshops. I personally would prefer a much smaller, more intense and personal workshop. Say.. for a party of 20 max? even the less the better. Ya, well here's some shots taken.

Seriously.. did anyone succeeded in having similar pictures? Seeing this just instantly discourage me to shoot from the so called "best angle"

 So what I ended up doing was to shoot from a spot where everyone wasn't shooting from. It turned out to be a good exercise for the eye to look at things from the "other side of the moon". So here's some straight out of the camera jpg's cropped afterward.

Trying to get a different mood to it, playing around with camera settings

Darker mood

Lighter mood

Sir HM & Ndoy

My latest project is finally up! This one is called "Ocean of Sorrow" series. Inspired by the lyrics from Opeth of course.

So, yes.. Let me introduce my very reliable photo assistant goes by the name of Hansel Mario Widjaja. The guy recently had his photograph exhibited for a program promoting the city of Jakarta called "Bingkai Jakarta" or Framing Jakarta in English. He's among the 50 lucky talented people who gets their photo exhibited on that event.. (Bravo..). Here's some pics I took at the exhibition.