Over the next few pages, we would like to dedicate this space to our dear departed friend, Teguh Santosa, a compassionate fellow whose picture have decorated our pages on multiple occasions for the beauty that they possess.
We first met Teguh following a referral from a mutual friend, whilst looking for a Jogja-based photographer to work on our very own photo and travel segment. We found a uniqueness in his work in macro-photography -a small world that was his main passion- although Teguh also pursued other photography genres as landscape, human interest, and nature.
Teguh liked to call himself a photography lover and if he should be called a photographer, he preferred to be called an amateur photographer, as, for him, amateur photographers commit to their hobby with love. He published several photography books over the years, for instance in 2012, along with Andiyan Lutfi, Teguh composed a macro photography book entitled “Macrophoto Book”. In 2013, he published his own book entitled “Bersujud Aku dalam Detail CiptaMu” (I Kneel in Your Creation’s Details). He then planned to publish other books with different concepts including one with us, titled “Chasing Light at the Edges of Night”.
In this last book, Teguh wished to capture the magical cosmos in numerous frames such as landscape, human interest, astrophotography, and nature, especially when the light source was scarce. He once said, during a downtime in a coffee shop in the middle of a rice field near Borobudur Temple, that under the sunlight, we tend to miss the details that lie in the shadows.
The moments that he managed to capture from dusk until dawn portray poignant and solemn emotion yet, thrilling conscience at being a small part of the universe, particularly at that moment when natural light begins to shift. From what is implicitly implied in this photography book and explicitly written in his notes, Teguh addressed the microcosm in him and the macrocosm surrounding him, divided into three chapters: Dusk, Dark, and Dawn.
