From the Nanoscale to Satellite Imaging: My 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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25 articles about Philippines Photography.
Welcome to Insights: Issue Two, a special edition of Photography Chismis PH.
Fara Manuel-Nolasco
- 4 days ago
Wheel of Time: The Enduring Spirit of the Komboys of Benguet
Flipping through archives of Baguio from the early 1900s, during its establishment as a highland hill station, one finds records of the earl
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Tom White
- 5 days ago
Documentary and the Cinema Noir of Raya Martin and Aldolfo Alix Jr’s “Manila”
Anyone who has spent any time in Southeast Asia will be familiar with streets drenched in the humid grime of tropical heat. The opening sequ
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John Paul Diciembre
- 5 days ago
Photographer’s Gaze: The Subjectivity in Art Documentation
Art exhibitions, often situated in the fleeting spaces of galleries, museums, and alternative venues, pose a challenge in preserving their t
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CONTEMPLATIONS | Reflections on Brief Migration, Photography and Arab Weddings in the Middle East
Without prior experience in wedding photography and with only a little knowledge of the country where I was going, I eagerly packed my lugga
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Maro Enriquez
- Jun 29
IDs for all: The history of the Filipino Freelance Journalists' Guild (FFJ)
It all began with an ID card. It was 2021, and I was doing a story at the time for an international publication. As you may know, this
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Meme Press Photo
- Jun 29
Memes as Critique: Interview with Meme Press Photo
The proof of Meme Press Photo's significance, and perhaps international notoriety, became obvious to Philippine photojournalists when Vivek
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Carlos Quijon Jr.
- Jun 27
Zhuang Wubin, Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey (review)
Zhuang Wubin’s Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey is marked by multiple motivations. Mainly, it surveys photographic practice in Southe
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Sean Carballo
- Jun 27
Context collapse in Vien Valencia's 'Bad Land'
It is a lot to take in, but what, concretely and materially, do we actually see? And how does what we see align with the vision of the artis
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Stephanie Frondoso
- Jun 27
Time Bubble
What is the relationship between Time and Photography? Generations of photographers and philosophers would respond differently. For the grou
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Anton Baello
- Jun 26
Eh ito, Art ba 'to?
A drawing of two presidents with words "Evil Is All Around Us" on the country's premier cultural structure is a monumental expression that c
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Jeremy Sandel
- Jun 26
2044
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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My Aesthetic of Squalor
I am not an artist. (Or, at least, I do not dare call myself an artist). Neither am I a photographer. (Again, I don't dare.) However, I am
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Eva Bentcheva, Ph.D.
- Jun 26
From Ephemeral Experiences to Lasting Legacies: Discourses on Experimental Art in the Philippines during the 1960s and 1970s
This paper shows how the Philippine visual art scene of the 1960s and 1970s offered particularly fertile ground for early experiments in pro
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Stephanie Syjuco
- Jun 25
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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Ursula Handleigh
- Jun 24
Across Distance and Time: (Re)Connecting Through Embodied Practice
There were two homes I wish I could have visited: the home of my grandparents, where my mother was born and the home of my great-grandparent
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Anna Rafanan
- Jun 24
Shifting Parameters
What does it entail, as an artist, being/becoming diasporic? Often this constitutes an origin and a destination, creating a sense of place w
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Alyssa Iresare
- Jun 24
Analog Resurrection and a New Way of Seeing
Photography, much like any other field in ambiguity (like philosophy), has a plethora of definitions, mostly personal ones. For one, photogr
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Francesca Locsin
- Jun 24
Framing a Winning Photograph: The Photography Category of the Shell NSAC
Since 1951, the Shell National Students Art Competition (Shell NSAC) has celebrated the talents of young visual artists by hosting annual co
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Julian dela Cerna
- Jun 24
A Sense of the Subject
It is an apocryphal story that speaks to us at spiritual intuition. Our Indigenous peoples during the American period first resisted getting
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Gilles Massot
- Jun 22
Identifying the tipping point?
My research on Jules Itier was initiated in 2011 within the context of a photography history course I was developing for the School of Art D
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Dominique Flores
- Jun 16
The Viewfinder as a Place of Struggle: 1986 People Power
Thirty-five years since the 1986 People Power movement, Filipinos look at black and white photographs of countless protests, remembering the
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Sandra Michelle Dans
- Jun 7
Readability, and Wedding Signifiers in Wedding Photography
My parents only have one photograph of themselves on their wedding day. Or rather, they only have one photograph of just the two of them. Ac
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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
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“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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