Roman Eyes, Indonesian Heart: Interview with Stefano Romano, Author of “Kampungku Indonesia”
Is it possible to feel a land as our own homeland, without being one? For Stefano Romano, a photographer based in Rome, Italy, the answer is “yes” if the land is Indonesia. That’s the first sentence he wrote in the Preface to his first photo-book to be published in Indonesia by Penerbit Mizan in July 2016, titled Kampungku Indonesia (My Own Private Indonesia). Stefano started working as a photographer in 2009 with migrant communities from Bangladesh in Rome. Since then he never stopped taking pictures, getting in touch with other foreign communities, especially of Southeast Asia and