Bezoek aan een dorp 1927 - 1931

These black and white photographs, titled "Bezoek aan een dorp" were preserved in an album of unknown origin, and show visits to what is most likely a village in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. I wonder about the act of assembling these images into an album. What was the person thinking as they pasted these photos into the book? What was the process of curating these images? Each image offers a glimpse into a moment frozen in time, but it's the act of selection and presentation that adds another layer of meaning. Like brushstrokes on a canvas, each photo carefully placed contributes to the overall narrative. What story did the curator hope to tell?