During 5 - 16 November 2022, my photo story exhibited along with 11 other photographers. We tell stories about PN-PRIMA cadres who connect vulnerable and disadvantaged communities to access to fair and equal community-based health.
I told a story about Iyus Prihartini, a cadre who has been working since 1999. She started it because her mother invited her, who at that time was the head of the Posyandu (Integrated Healthcare Center) “Wijaya Kusuma”. It was her mother who invited her so that she would not feel alone because that year, Iyus was pregnant with her first child and left by her husband who was a soldier that takes charge in East Timor (now Timor Leste).
In the neighborhood where she lives now, Kalibaru, Depok, she becomes a health cadre and is involved in various social activities in her neighborhood.
Model figures like Iyus and her mother are already present in society. The work they do is like sowing good seeds that will continue to grow similar figures in the next generation. Wijaya Kusuma, apart from being the name of the first Posyandu where Iyus worked, was a flower that used to bloom a lot in her mother's yard. Even though now the flowers no longer smell there, I see Iyus' dedication today like that of Wijaya Kusuma who always makes Kalibaru, Depok, beautiful.
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I am very grateful to the photographers, mentors, curators, program manager who made this exhibition run well and visitors who sent many heartwarming messages. Of course also to the person who I have been allowed to record and interpret the fragments of her life in this photo story, Iyus Prihartini. I am happy that we collaborated while working on this project and also still communicate until today. Hopefully this story will not stop at the photographic frame, but will grow and blossom in the hearts of everyone who sees and reads it.
Iyus Prihartini standing beside her portrait in the exhibition (taken by Rara Sekar)
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