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Angki Purbandono who works and lives in Yogyakarta since 1990, is a leading contemporaryphotographer. Born in 1971 in Kendal, Angki constantly challenges and re-questions general perceptions in the world of art-photography. One of his interpretations is whether or not a photographer must always use a camera to take a picture of an object. This question led him to the discovery of scanography, in which Angki substitutes the camera with a scanner; a breakthrough discovery which has become his signature style. Angki’s scanned images reveal a combination of small mundane objects that we often see in our daily life against a solid black background. The immense dark space then later accentuates the expressiveness of the objects, drawing the viewers to stare solely at the object. Angki’s scanography technique gained its first major recognition after the exhibition of “Space and Shadows – Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia” at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Germany in 2005. Since the early 2000’s, Angki has participated in many exhibitions – locally and abroad. In 2002, Angki, together with a group of fellow photographers, initiated Ruang MES 56, a non-profit institution that focused on the development of art photography in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.