The Monkey and the Mask: Terrifying Portraits of Indonesia’s Street-Performing Macaques

Finnish photographer Perttu Saksa’s series, “A Kind of You,” is so unsettling. Saksa, a portrait photographer by trade, was appalled when, traveling in Jakarta in 2012, he first caught sight of macaque monkeys that had been manacled and forced into roles as “actors” in street performances. In the fall of last year, with the help of an Indonesian journalist, Saksa began investigating people known as “monkey masters” — entrepreneurs who train and rent monkeys to beggars