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Bali is the one everybody has already seen, so I went for the parts you have to stand still for — the split gate at Handara, the terraces at Tegallalang, a swing out over the treetops with twenty feet of fabric behind me. Most of the day was quieter than these photographs make it look.

December 2024 · 8 photos

  • Neké Akua at Bali's Handara Gate in a magenta gown, its train sweeping the full width of the road behind her.
  • Neké Akua holding out the train of her magenta gown so it sweeps across the road, standing barefoot in front of a Balinese split gate beneath a wide blue sky.
  • Neké Akua standing in the gap of Bali's Handara Gate, magenta fabric caught mid-air across the frame with the mountains beyond.
  • Neké Akua in a flowing red gown on the Tegallalang rice terraces in Bali, looking back over her shoulder as the train of the dress spills down the hillside behind her.
  • Neké Akua in a red gown on a flower-hung jungle swing in Bali, the train of the dress flying out over the treetops.
  • Neké Akua at a woven bamboo nest perched above the Tegallalang terraces, the train of her red gown flying out across the frame.
  • Neké Akua in a red gown inside a heart-shaped woven nest, jungle behind her and the dress's train sweeping out across the grass.
  • Neké Akua in an elaborate gold Balinese headdress and pink-and-gold sarong, fan in hand before a carved wooden door.

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