As part of promoting the new book Philippine Church Facades, I’m starting a new series at my photoblog Binary Silver. Twelve stunning photos of colonial churches used in the said book are featured with two churches per image covering north, central and south Luzon, Metro Manila, Visayas and Mindanao.
Series 49: Malate market vendors is now starting at Binary Silver. These are a series of photos taken during a lazy afternoon in a market near the nightlife mecca that is Malate in Manila. This was one of the assignments that I did for a documentary portrait photography workshop at Silverlens Gallery conducted by Kat Palasi a few months ago just before Lent.
While I don’t know these people, coming up to them and asking for their permission to have their photos taken was done with trepidation at first but once I realized that these vendors were accommodating and open, it became easier.
More photos are lined up for the coming days at my photoblog.
Thanx to Kat Palasi, I was able to attend Pitik 3: Photojournalism Forum Series with noted Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam at the Ateneo de Manila, Katipunan campus. After talk gimik was Newsbreak in Quezon City where I was able to meet with noted and up-and-coming photojournalists.
Read more at Shahidul Alam talk and At Newsbreak.
It was only last year since I was able to join a series of Flickr Cebu-Sugbo photoshoots and meets so last Sunday night, to ward off boredom, I met with B2y and Wantet at around 2200H at Fuente. We planned to do some night shooting and we then headed for the M Fernan Bridge in Mactan. I’ve been there before during a previous shoot but it was still good to do some photography there. Of course, I got photos of the bridges but the surrounding houses at the water’s edge were also beautiful.
Another and bigger photo can be viewed at Binary Silver.
I miss Cebu. A little more than a month since I was last there and I just have this strange longing for home. Is it because Makati is just too crowded and hot and noisy that I miss the relative peace of being back in my home province? Or is it just that I miss my family? Or traveling down south rounding off the western side and marvel at the clear blue waters and ancient churches and watchtowers dotting the coast? Or being spoiled with Talisay lechon that I always want to be served during Sunday lunch accompanied with dugo-dugo and crispy ginabot and fruits or hot pan de leche at night smothered with a good helping of butter and savor its fluffy texture?
Series 48: Cebu on my mind is now starting at Binary Silver. Consisting of 8 photos, these are images of Cebu near the Mactan bridge area that makes me smile as I’m welcomed back when I arrive from Manila or lingers in my mind whenever I leave again.
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