GETIH (2nd Edition)

Getih is a quietly powerful photobook by visual storyteller Christopher Gio Sarsono, unfolding as both personal reckoning and curatorial inquiry into fatherhood, masculinity, and the inherited weight of memory. “Getih” meaning blood in a local Indonesian dialect anchors the work in lineage, tension, and belonging. What begins as a fragmented relationship between father and son slowly evolves into a shared attempt at reconstruction, sparked by a tentative reconnection in 2020. A boar hunting trip becomes the unlikely setting for proximity, silence, and unresolved emotion where bonding is not declared, but negotiated through presence. Presented through a layered combination of newly made photographs, archival materials, written fragments, and evolving sequencing strategies, the book resists a linear narrative. Instead, it moves like memory itself: discontinuous, tactile, and emotionally charged. Across multiple iterations developed between 2022 and 2025 including its early form Bonds of Memoirs and its refinement through international mentoring and photobook programs, the project transforms not only in structure, but in psychological depth. Earlier versions were more observational, drawn to the external ritual of boar hunting. The final form turns inward. The hunt becomes metaphor rather than subject, a backdrop against which emotional inheritance, vulnerability, and estrangement are examined with increasing clarity. What emerges is not resolution, but recognition. Printed on Fedrigoni papers, laser-printed and hand bound in saddle stitch by RAWS Publishing (Bandung), Getih carries a material sensitivity that mirrors its subject: intimate, imperfect, and deliberately human. Why you should buy this book: Because it is not simply a photobook, it is a lived process of confronting emotional inheritance. Getih offers a rare honesty in contemporary photobook practice: a work that documents not just a relationship between father and son, but the slow, difficult act of understanding what cannot be easily spoken. It is for readers who value photography as a form of personal archaeology where image, memory, and silence carry equal weight. +++ Language: English Format: Softcover | 130pages Dimensions: 285 x 200mm | 450g Publication Year: 2026 | Second Edition of 50