Aprillio Akbar is a photojournalist who currently resides in Jakarta. He has been exposed to photography since a very young age, through the strong influence of his father who worked as a wedding photographer at the time. After graduating from the Photography program of Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) Yogyakarta, he started to work as a daily photo contributor at the National News Agency ANTARA, with coverage assignments ranging from daily life, social, and politics to law, economics, sports, and disasters.