Hermawan Wicaksono was born in Lampung, Indonesia in 1979 and has had a lifelong passion for visual arts and music. After studying business and accounting, he worked as a freelance writer for a magazine and opened his own visual design studio in 2004. Since then, he has told stories through photography, books, movies, and podcasts for clients around the world. He continues to take classes to expand his skills in filmmaking, creative lighting, and using various platforms to engage others through his art.

1. Hello There,
I was born in Lampung, April 7th 1979. I love visual arts and music since I was a kid. I did
painting, collages, making music with friends in a rock band, I guess I was the definition of
“anak nongkrong MTV” back then.
From Lampung, I moved to Bandung, continued my study. I took a business class, majoring
in accounting in Adventist University of Indonesia (UNAI). I graduated in 2002. In 2014, I took
my master class in the same campus, majoring in marketing, but for some reasons, I
dropped the class while I was preparing my final thesis in 2016.
Back in 2002, after graduated, I work as a freelance writer in the most controversy youth
culture magazine in Bandung, named Ripple Magazine. I did not looking for a job as an
accountant, I just want to have my own business.
2004. I opened my own visual design studio, Eyesee Studio. We’re working on graphic
design, photography, and video making for personal or company needs in Indonesia.
2009. I took photography class, in Win-Initiative, a stock photo agency based in New York.
Then I got supported by Nikon and Broncolor lighting. Eversince, I started to having abroad
clients. I made editorial, illustration, advertising, for companies around the world.
2011. I wrote two tutorial photography books, that nationally published by Elex Media
Komputindo, titled Simply Photography Indoor Portrait Series and Still Life Series, continued
with the Android Apps.
2014. I opened community based free photography class, named Eyesee Photo Class. The
class held once a week with 40-50 students every batch. Now, we’re entering 15th batch.
2016. I started to working on my personal projects, such as: painting, analog photography,
and I wrote two self published books, titled Bandung Jualan and Be Pung Tana. The projects
continued with another publishes, exhibitions, workshops in campus, art galleries.
2017. I wrote my third tutorial photography book, titled Creative Lighting, that (again)
nationally published by Elex Media Komputindo.
2018. I took photography classes at Kelas Pagi Militan and Pannafoto
Institute, Jakarta. I learned how to make photography as the way to tell stories.
2019. Telling stories through photography were not enough, I started to making short
movies, that I posted on Youtube. I already making movies on 2003, but in 2019, I made it
more seriously. I wrote the stories, picking the casts, taking shots, edited, and published. It
was like my “one man show” projects.
2020. In order to bringing my “film making projects” further, I took a film-making class by
Ernest Prakasa. I learned how to make a commercial movies, writing and directing. Then I
wrote four movies scripts. But suddenly, the pandemic era came.
2021. I could not bring my scripts into a film, then I wrote a novel, titled Cinta Biasa, it’s
about teenage love story.
I love telling stories, through photographs, movies, music, novel, and podcast. Podcast is the
latest platform that I use to tell stories. Combined them together will become a great
artwork, to reaching and having engagement with others.
Best,
Hermawan Wicaksono

2. portrait, wedding, product

3. ilustration, editorial, advertising

4. personal project:
photo books

5. simply photography series

6. Bandung Jualan
Published by Eyesee Studio 2017
ISBN: 978-602-0872-90-2
Tentang mereka yang berjuang bertahan hidup
di kota Bandung dengan berjualan.
Be Pung Tana
Published by Eyesee Studio 2017
ISBN: 978-602-6611-13-0
Perjalanan ke Kupang Timur,
melihat budaya, alam, dan hati penduduk lokal.

7. photo class

8. personal project:
analog photography, painting, collage, novel

9. short movies

10. clients

11. press

12. Hermawan Wicaksono
email: hermawan.wicaksono@yahoo.com
phone: +628157136534