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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.
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
Stephanie Tumampos
Sep 9, 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
Jeremy Sandel
Jun 26, 2024
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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?
Stephanie Syjuco
Jun 25, 2024
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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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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
Antonni Cuesta
Feb 12, 2024
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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
Ruston Banal
Aug 19, 2023
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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
Veejay Villafranca
Aug 19, 2023
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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
JPaul S. Manzanilla, Ph.D.
Aug 19, 2023
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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
Stephanie Frondoso
Aug 19, 2023
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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
Angel Shaw
Aug 19, 2023
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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
Jo Ivan Llaneta
Aug 18, 2023
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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,
Remmon E. Barbaza, Ph.D.
Aug 18, 2023
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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,
Alyssa Iresare
Aug 18, 2023
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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
Kristine Reynaldo, Ph.D.
Aug 18, 2023
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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
Patrick Flores, Ph.D.
Aug 5, 2023
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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
Regina Abuyuan
Aug 5, 2023
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