Doni Maulistya started his artistic journey as a photography-based artist. He started to question his position as an artist in the society that is continuously in a dynamic negotiation between “the old and the new”. He see the negotiation process as an identity formation process that will always happen in the human history. He also realize that a medium is not a sole artistic language. Therefore, he expand my exploration on photography as well as on other media beyond photography. Thus, in making artworks, He always interested in doing themes such as the history, tradition, and dialectic dimensions between the old and the new.