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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.
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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