On December 26th 2004 the coast of the Aceh province in Indonesia was heavenly struck by a tsunami. Approximately 200 000 people were killed. Many survivors became homeless. Many people still are refugee in their own country. 500 days after the facts, when the international press has lost interest, the aftermath still resonated all over Aceh, RRonny Smedts visited the area and chose fore a more scenic approach to communicate the impact of this environmental disaster. His aesthetic compositions are subtle ways to reconstruct the facts, conveying a strikingly ambiguous effect. At first glance a beautiful landscape is perceived, but looking closer awful traces of the disaster emerge. In these photographs human misery is not forced upon the viewer. Instead they feed the imagination. They force the viewer to picture the impact of the tsunami mentally.