Chasing Stigma in Indonesia

Andrea Star Reese is looking for images of mental illness in Indonesia. But what she’s really chasing is stigma.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/chasing-stigma-in-indonesia/

The photographer Andrea Star Reese dealt obliquely with issues of mental illness in her first project, “The Urban Cave,” on homelessness in Harlem. She is dealing with it head on in her current project, set in Indonesia, where Ms. Start Reese has worked on and off since 2003.