Indonesia

In out-of-print photo volume 'Matriarchs', Austrian photographer Maria HAAS focuses on the investigation of cultures in which women have a special status. She opens these cultures to the viewer and captures their beauty and vitality in sensitive portraits

The book 'My Dearest Javanese Concubine' by Luca DESIENNA is a love story. Two social outcasts - Tira, a 48-year-old transsexual & Dayang, a disposable person without family - in faraway Indonesia find a way to love each other regardless of their origins.