Stacii Samidin is a documentary photographer and filmmaker. Samidin’s works are part of his ongoing life’s work Societies, which is founded on rough honesty, radicalism, and unknown territories. Samidin’s Societies boil down to the essence of observing, listening, and capturing people without prejudice or judgment. By depicting the lives of minorities worldwide, Samidin hopes to create a shift in individual and collective consciousness. Using analogue photography and film he voices the unheard, with the eye of a visual anthropologist.
Stacii Samidin’s Societies has been awarded the “Grand Prize by the Jury” at De Kracht van Rotterdam 2016 (‘Power of Rotterdam’) and has been on display at FotoFestival Naarden (2017) and Tent Rotterdam (2017), and internationally in Wuhan, China (2014) and Bali, Indonesia (2017). His commissioned exhibitions include “Document Nederland : The café” (2018) for the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam about bar culture in the Netherlands and “Merdeka!” (2019) for the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam about the aftermath of the Indonesian colonization by the Dutch.
He was born (1987) and raised in Rotterdam-East, a city district where he shared his life with many people with Indonesian roots, people with a strong sense of solidarity with one another. Stacii Simidin says: 'I have grown together with the city.' He compares his personal development with the growth of Rotterdam into a metropolis. As a youngster, the city neighbourhood was his stomping ground. Now, he has entered a worldwide arena as a human being, documentary photographer and documentary filmmaker.
Stacii Samidin’s Societies has been awarded the “Grand Prize by the Jury” at De Kracht van Rotterdam 2016 (‘Power of Rotterdam’) and has been on display at FotoFestival Naarden (2017) and Tent Rotterdam (2017), and internationally in Wuhan, China (2014) and Bali, Indonesia (2017). His commissioned exhibitions include “Document Nederland : The café” (2018) for the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam about bar culture in the Netherlands and “Merdeka!” (2019) for the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam about the aftermath of the Indonesian colonization by the Dutch.
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