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Ania Blazejewska | Balinese Idyll

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Photo � Ania Blazejewska -All Rights Reserved I should preface this post that some of the photographs are of tasteful nudity, and may be considered as NSFW. Ania Blazejewska's Old Bali gallery , which only appears on her Polish-language blog, is of set up scenes with models to represent life on the island as it was many years ago, before its becoming a tourist destination. Her photographs are tasteful and luminescent, and the models chosen for this particular photo shoot are all just gorgeous. Through these arranged scenes, she has recreated a traditional Balinese way of life, with roosters (for the cock fights), the religious offerings ( canang sari ), the temples, the abundant fruits, the dances, the gamelan, and markets. This may not be travel photography as such, but it's certainly "time travel' photography with reenactment of what may have been commonplace in Bali in the 1920's or earlier. One can view actual old images here to see the accuracy of th...