Monkeys trained to beg for money... but wearing dolls heads
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:58 pm
Got this link from the Supressed Transmissions Google group.
From the hosting site: -
“A kind of you“, a disturbing series about the world of street monkeys in the city of Jakarta, created by the Finnish photographer Perttu Saska. Trained and dressed as humans to ask for money to passersby, as is an old Asian tradition, these monkeys have now become real objects, even wearing doll heads to accent mimicry, turning them into real living toys… A cruel phenomenon that leaves a strong sense of unease…"
http://www.ufunk.net/en/photos/street-apes-jakarta/
To take the comments of one member of the Suppressed Transmissions site further, this is an interesting idea for a race of beings hiding in plain sight on the streets of some Third World country.
From the hosting site: -
“A kind of you“, a disturbing series about the world of street monkeys in the city of Jakarta, created by the Finnish photographer Perttu Saska. Trained and dressed as humans to ask for money to passersby, as is an old Asian tradition, these monkeys have now become real objects, even wearing doll heads to accent mimicry, turning them into real living toys… A cruel phenomenon that leaves a strong sense of unease…"
http://www.ufunk.net/en/photos/street-apes-jakarta/
To take the comments of one member of the Suppressed Transmissions site further, this is an interesting idea for a race of beings hiding in plain sight on the streets of some Third World country.
