Farid Rakun

About Farid Rakun

After being active in art, architecture, design, and cultural scene since the early 2000s, Farid Rakun reignited his interest in photography with @fujibokek, an Instagram account focusing on first-generation Fujifilm X series cameras and lenses made and adapted for the system. The name uses bokek (not to be mistaken with bokeh), a slang in Bahasa Indonesia referring to a state of having empty pockets. If Fujifilm is “poor man’s Leica”, what is to be made out with poor man’s Fuji?

Posts by Farid Rakun:

July 15, 2024

The uninhibited and the redundant ones: Roaming with X-A1 and X-M1 in 2024

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Let me jump to conclusions this time (with elaborations further down): these two bodies are my most used cameras. They work well as a pair. Their size, ease, straightforwardness, and, most importantly, lack of customizable options, render them very suitable for my use (shooting only JPGs, with only two settings each—one is almost exclusively in […]

July 2, 2024

The emotional and the special ones: How (on earth) I’m still using the X-Pro1 and X100 in 2024

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Back at the end of 2011/early 2012, while living as a student in the US, I made a purchase that (in retrospect) was formative. Having a relatively significant financial surplus in my bank account as a result of a government scholarship, I decided to invest in the Fujifilm X system by ordering the newly launched […]