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Photo of the Week: The Writing on the Street
Photo of the Week: The Writing on the Street
The Writing on the Street
Rags-to-Riches Not At All
Rags-to-Riches Not At All
Rags-to-Riches Not At All. A rag vendor takes a rest by the sidewalk. (By Pom Cahilog-Villanueva)
The only certainties in life…
The only certainties in life…
The only certainties in life… . are death, taxes, and laundry, as a joke goes. And so Lumad evacuees at the Diocesan Pastoral Council in Tandag, Surigao del sur try to carry on the usual chores, even with the limited food, water supply, soap and space.
(Photo by Dee Ayroso)
Photo of the Week: Not Quite Le Cirque
Photo of the Week: Not Quite Le Cirque
Not Quite Le Cirque. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her party spent nearly one million pesos on dinner during their recent visit to New York, ordering such items as caviar and expensive wine. In the meantime, poor Filipinos -- like this little girl having lunch, or what passes for it, in Isla Puting Bato, a slum area in Manila -- have to make do with what they have, which is often not enough. (By Ayi Muallam)
A Different View
A Different View
A Different View. A community of urban poor families living under this bridge in Balut, Tondo seems to be inured to the sound of the vehicles passing every minute of the day.
(Photo by Janess Ann J. Ellao)
Photo of the Week: Young ‘Director’
Photo of the Week: Young ‘Director’
Young "Director." The little girl is poised as though she's intently watching a scene being played out from a film that she's directing. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva)
Hard Times Indeed
Hard Times Indeed. While other people would try to get more than one job, the man in the picture tries to cope by selling two products -- water and ice cream, for everyday use and for treats and special occasions. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva)
Hard Times Indeed
Hard Times Indeed. While other people would try to get more than one job, the man in the picture tries to cope by selling two products -- water and ice cream, for everyday use and for treats and special occasions. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva) Soothing Music
Soothing Music
Soothing Music. The woman playing the guitar in the picture appears to have fallen asleep not because of her music, which she has probably not completed yet, but by the orchestra of the busy street: the honking of horns, the rumble of engines, the footsteps and conversations of people passing by. (By Owen S. Bayog)
Taong Kabayo
Taong Kabayo
Taong Kabayo. In a land of cheap, docile and surplus labor, humans take on the work of animals or machines.
(Photo by Raymund Villanueva)
Street Bingo
Street Bingo
Street Bingo. No polo field for these urban-poor residents playing bingo along Tomas Morato Avenue, in Quezon City. (By Raymund Villanueva)
Fast Forward
Fast Forward
Fast Forward. This scene, photographed in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan, looks colonial -- except for the mobile phone company bag the nun is holding.
(Photo by Raymund Villanueva/ Bulatlat.com)
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