Are We All Taking the Same Photograph?
At a popular landmark, people wait, stand in the same place, and raise their cameras toward the same view, until that familiar angle begins to feel like the correct one.
Why Do We Notice What We Notice
We see countless moments each day, yet only a few make us stop. What catches our attention may reveal as much about ourselves as the world around us.
Reading William Eggleston (I): Learning to See the Ordinary
William Eggleston’s 1976 MoMA exhibition revolutionized photography, but his legacy transcends the mere validation of color. Through his landmark work, Eggleston proved that extraordinary photography begins not with exceptional subjects, but with an extraordinary way of seeing the ordinary world.
From Pictures to Projects: Why Truth Flux Reflects the Continuing Evolution of Tiga Mata
Photography has long celebrated individual images, but Truth Flux brings together eleven projects that invite us to look beyond the single photograph and into the ideas and relationships that shape photographic meaning.
Write What Lasts a Thousand Years
Write something a person a thousand years from now would understand at once—without footnotes, without the scaffolding of your own era.
Five Issues In: The Journey of Tiga Mata So Far
Five issues in, we’re halfway. Looking back, what matters most isn’t the number. It’s the questions that kept opening up along the way.
Manipulation Art in the Age of Truth Flux
Tiga Mata Issue #5: Truth Flux gathers work that retouches, appropriates and reconstructs, treating truth not as a stable destination but as something continually reshaped by technology and interpretation.
Between Youth and Visibility: Photography, Queer Identity, and Self-Expression
How young queer people use photography to explore identity, and why the camera becomes a space for self-expression long before self-acceptance.
The AI Controversy in Photography: Rethinking Truth, Authorship, and the Image
AI has forced photography to confront what it actually is: a look at authorship, authenticity and ethics when no camera was ever involved.
Peter Bialobrzeski’s City Diaries: A Southeast Asian Reflection
Peter Bialobrzeski’s City Diaries photographs cities honestly rather than beautifully, and his quiet twilight method feels close to home in Southeast Asia.