Genesis drop · Ethereum mainnet
PORIAMAN.The visual archive of a nation.
Four decades behind the lens. Thousands of negatives. The faces that built modern Indonesia — curated, authenticated, and preserved on-chain forever.
Four decades behind the lens. Thousands of negatives. The faces that built modern Indonesia — curated, authenticated, and preserved on-chain forever.
From street markets of the 1980s to the private studies of presidents — one photographer, one continuous line of sight across the making of modern Indonesia.
Years behind
the lens
Negatives in
the archive
Works curated
for phase one
Creator royalty
on-chain
“Indonesia's Annie Leibovitz” — the photographer presidents, founders and icons allowed into the room.
Indonesian photography community
Across four decades of work, Poriaman Sitanggang built a reputation as Indonesia's foremost portrait and documentary photographer. His work has run in national and international press, and he has taught portraiture at Antara's photojournalism gallery — the highest recognition his field offers.
Presidents, founders, ministers, artists and business figures — recorded across four decades of Indonesian history.
Markets, rituals, coastlines, cities — the everyday Indonesia that no longer exists to be photographed again.
Books, magazine covers and gallery exhibitions across a career spanning the analogue and digital eras.
Scarcity is the engine of value. From thousands of negatives, phase one releases roughly 400 curated works — sequenced so each drop builds the story, the market, and the price of the next.
The people's history
Documentary work from the 1980s onward — the everyday Indonesia that built the nation. The opening drop that establishes the collector base.
Figures of the nation
Portraits of Indonesia's leaders and icons. Released only once every portrait clearance is complete — making it the sole authorised collection of its kind.
Ten to twenty 1/1 works
The absolute masterpieces. One of one, auctioned individually, each paired with a signed fine-art print from the photographer's own hand.
A first look at the archive. Every work carries its own written history — place, year, and the story behind the frame — authored with the photographer himself.
Preview selection · Full catalogue released with each drop
Thousands of negatives, reduced to the few hundred that carry historical weight. The photographer holds final approval on every selection.
High-resolution masters written permanently to Arweave, mirrored on IPFS. The archive cannot be lost, altered, or taken offline.
Custom creator contracts, not a shared marketplace wallet. Provenance, edition number and creator royalty are enforced at the contract level.
Negatives and prints scanned at archival resolution, colour-managed and catalogued. Each frame is documented with place, year and the story behind it — written together with the photographer.
Works are graded into three tiers and three series. Every portrait intended for commercial release passes written clearance with its subject or their estate, under counsel — the safeguard that makes this collection impossible to imitate.
Deployed to Ethereum mainnet through audited creator contracts. Grail works go to auction with a signed print; editions release on allowlist. Secondary royalties flow back to the photographer for the life of the work.
The network where the world's most valuable photography changes hands. No bridged assets, no side-chain compromise.
Masters written to Arweave and mirrored on IPFS — engineered to outlive every server, company and platform involved.
Copyright stays with the photographer. Portrait clearances documented under Indonesian law before any commercial release.
Genesis drop access opens to the allowlist first. Register for priority mint, private previews of the archive, and an invitation to the launch exhibition.