Bali in the 90s Was a Complex Paradise
(WorldNews Indonesia)

After surviving breast cancer in 1990, photographer Jill Freedman felt sure of one thing: she needed to visit Bali. `I went,` she says, `as soon as I could walk after the radiation.` Hell-bent on capturing beautiful images of life and vitality, Freedman flew blindly towards the island. She thought she knew what to anticipate; anything else she`d figure out on the fly. But the photographs Freedman took in Bali reveal a cultural learning curve. Her Western expectations of the island were shattered, giving way to tender portraits that document an ancient culture`s idiosyncratic flirtation with a changing world. Freedman hired a Balinese man named Nyoman Wirata and his wife, also named Nyoman,...