May 6, 2017
They may have the faces of dolls, but the subjects in these photos are very much alive.
In a series called ‘A Kind of You’ Finnish photographer Perttu Saksa documents the disturbing world of Jakarta’s monkey street performers, who are led around on chain leashes by handlers and trained to wear human masks in a sad streets shows.
The monkeys are trained to walk on their back legs, wear dresses and cowboy hats and ride bikes - but their condition as slaves is made even more deplorable by their disturbingly humanoid faces.
'Modern city culture has turned the old tradition into an eerie and haunting act of cruel street theater where animals become something else, never able to reach our expectations,’ the photographer explained. (Source)
