From the Field
One archive in photographs and film. It records the work the cuisine grows from, on expeditions with indigenous community partners across Sarawak. Curated by Atlas Collective.
Why this archive exists
The cuisine grows out of the field. Serumpun would not exist without the expeditions, and without the listening and gathering, and the partnership with the indigenous communities whose knowledge the platform carries.
This page records that work, in photographs and in film. It grows as the fieldwork grows.
The archive
Twelve frames from the field, of time with elders and work alongside seed-keepers, foragers and home cooks. With them are short films of the recipes, ingredients and household practice the communities have trusted us with.
Field record: film I → Field record: film II →
Photographs and films by Atlas Collective. The archive is still growing, and new entries go up as the fieldwork goes on. Its main home is the Serumpun Sarawak Instagram channel, @serumpunsarawak.
Questions answered
What is the Serumpun archive?
One archive, in photographs and film, of the fieldwork Serumpun Sarawak grows from: time with elders, and work alongside seed-keepers, foragers and home cooks, on expeditions with indigenous community partners across Sarawak.
Who made the photographs and films?
Atlas Collective made and curates them.
What do the films record, and with whose consent?
The recipes, ingredients and household practice the communities have trusted us with. The communities decide what is shared, and the studio records only what they agree to.
How can I help the fieldwork?
If you can document, fund or guide, write to connect@chefjameswon.com and tell me what you do.
We listen before we cook. The cuisine grows from that habit.
James Won
The forest edits and the communities write. The studio records what they agree to share.