BY GUINEVERE JOY
Mukti Echwantono
Visions of Ophelia
“Perhaps the darkness in my images seeks to
romanticize sadness and depression.”
S
ince her appearance in Shakespeare’s
Hamlet, Ophelia has inspired songs, poetry
and paintings. For Indonesian photographer
Mukti Echwantono, Ophelia plays the role
of a muse yet again in his moving series of
underwater captures.
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