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Search our small collection of articles about Photography in the Philippines. Welcome to Insights, a special publication of Photography Chismis PH.
Stephanie Tumampos
Sep 9, 2024
From Nanoscale to Satellite Imaging: A Journey of Wonders
During my college years as an applied physics student, I focused my research on materials physics. At its core, materials physics delves int
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Jeremy Sandel
Jun 26, 2024
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The breaking dawn and neon glow of skyscrapers cast a kaleidoscope of colors on Maharlika Manila. Hover taxis zip past, their drivers effort
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Stephanie Syjuco
Jun 25, 2024
Object Number 2022.24.1
It’s a simple query: where are we, and what do we look like within these American archives? Where are we not? Where are we – accidentally?
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Photography '88: A Foundation for Growth
It has been two years since seven photographic and related organizations, for the first time since National Photography Week was decreed by
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Antonni Cuesta
Feb 12, 2024
The Complex
“The old metaphors no longer work,” boldly declares Geronimo Cristobal in 2023 as he shares a Call for Papers for a prestigious graduate stu
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Ruston Banal
Aug 19, 2023
Photography’s Many Realities: In defense of Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry was introduced to me by my good friend, Hossein Farmani, who owns the Lucie Awards and is McCurry’s closest friend. The Lucie
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Veejay Villafranca
Aug 19, 2023
Authorship and Representation
Children flash their bright smiles atop debris, workers wiggle their hips whilst carrying shovels and brooms, dancers sway and break dance i
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JPaul S. Manzanilla, Ph.D.
Aug 19, 2023
Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands: Photography, Film & the Colonial Philippines by Mark Rice (review)
Before Dean Worcester’s Fantasy Islands was published, the only book-length study of American colonial photographs of the Philippines was Be
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Stephanie Frondoso
Aug 19, 2023
Fotomoto: A View from Inside
FotomotoPH is a photography collective that organizes the largest traveling exhibition of Philippine photography to date. The group’s object
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Angel Shaw
Aug 19, 2023
NOT VISUAL NOISE: Philippine Photography In A Media Saturated World
There’s so much visual noise that it’s hard to make work that is distinctive and focuses the attention of the crowd in a sustained way.1 ~ S
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Jo Ivan Llaneta
Aug 18, 2023
Facciamo una bella foto!
In 2008, the Asian economy took a downturn with the global financial crisis. Photographic jobs and projects in Manila were the first to disa
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Remmon E. Barbaza, Ph.D.
Aug 18, 2023
On the Philosophy of Photography
“Finally,” I told my class on the first day of a new course I just launched this semester, “finally, after many years of thinking about it,
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Alyssa Iresare
Aug 18, 2023
Kitsch Commodification vis-à-vis Poverty in Photography
Imagine finding yourself at a crossroads: having entered a prestigious photography competition with the potential to win up to PHP 100,000,
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Kristine Reynaldo, Ph.D.
Aug 18, 2023
Batok, Beauty, and Branding
In April 2023, Vogue Philippines published their seventh issue, which, so to say, made a splash around the world. On the cover was the kind
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Patrick Flores, Ph.D.
Aug 5, 2023
Dispersed by Torrent, Gathered by Image
A disconsolate father recalls a searing time: his son draws his attention to a picture he has just sketched out. Seemingly arising, or stemm
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Regina Abuyuan
Aug 5, 2023
Bencab on the 5 Photographers
The first one man show which featured photography as art was by Romy Vitug. That was in my gallery then, in Indigo, in 1967. There were a lo
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