Bulakbol Diaries

Is about me and my camera. Its about the stories behind some images I've made. Its about some small detail that I sometimes recall only after the fact. Its mostly about landscapes and people. That's what attracts me.

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These were taken on September 27, 2009 a day after STORM ONDOY/KETSANA left the Philippines in great devastation. We went to shoot in the middle-class village of Provident in Marikina, the country’s shoe capital. The harrowing experience made each resident I met seem emotional and wanting sympathy. One woman said her young niece had died and she was going to go for help so that a funeral car can come. Her niece was 12 years old. Later that afternoon, I rode the military rescue truck that was carrying three dead bodies that had been retrieved from the  Marikina river banks. The bodies were of two women and a boy. The other woman was pregnant.

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