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15 years of photography.

10 years of understanding it.

I have a talk on Nov. 25th 1:30pm for Fotomoto

Will spill my heart out about what are we looking at when we look at images.

#diary #film photography #photographers on tumblr #black and white

A photo of one of my lectures on the difference of Photography and painting with Hans Aarsman’s TED Talk as a jump off point for the Introduction Visual Communications class, 2019

It’s amazing that I used to give so much to this job to the point that I exhausted myself. A few more weeks until it’s all over.

I really thought I’d stay here until I die. Thing is, I don’t want to die here. I want to be in the company of my wife and my son. Simple as that.

A Joel Meyerowitz quote that always stays with me is that “Photography Provides”. I’ll take whatever it gives me.

On to the next chapter.

#diary

Everything will be Alright, 2020

#snapshot #photography #Street Photography

It’s funny how the spaces we used to occupy, even if it is digital, gives us a sense of belonging. I used to spend hours upon hours in the platform and now it’s empty. Just full of cobwebs here and there. The people whose updates you see are now gone.

People grow. People move on. It’s only a matter of time before the messages, missivies, passive messages, subtexts, ideas, inspirations, all disappear when this site disappears. Will there be a chance to retrieve all of them? I highly doubt.

Quite sad that I won’t be able to share my teenage years to my son. Would be funny to show him my life before I met his mother.

Either way, will savor all this space of it before it’s gone.

#random thought

2016, Sariaya Quezon

#stars #a7r #snapshot #love #orion

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Upholding Humanity Against A Shifting Tide

I’ve always considered the 70-80’s era of the Philippines as the golden age of art in the Philippines. It is in this era that the greatest movies and directors came out from that decade, hymns and songs from around the country flourished, the rise of our national painters with their signature style, the reception and quality of literature in both fiction and prose was top notch, and for our purposes here, it marked the golden age of Philippine photography. I’ve always wondered what is in that era that marked such an output from the artists. I think that they responded to the crises of their time by being responsive. Either to the government and what it stands for or to use art as vehicles to show their political affiliations.

I feel that we are at the cusp of another era such as the 70’s-80’s. The conditions are there: The lawlessness, economic uncertainty caused by a never ending threat, the degradation of human value, and the latest one, entering the post truth world. The tide of history is currently shifting and photography’s history is also tied to these shifts. We’ve seen it first hand how a mother’s wailing was heard around the world and yet there are those who question the tried and tested power of the still image made by the hands of skilled photojournalists. Those who question the power of the image are trying to shape their narrative by debunking the truths that a photograph contains.With all of this happening, how do we move forward?

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