What will you be 10 years from now?

Photo by Ryan Montilla

our question was, "what will you be 10 years from now?" with a sad face, closed eyes. this was tiring, but i enjoyed it. why? so many people were shy to make a sad face. they really cant express it. this exercise really needed full teamwork. 1 to shoot, 1-2 to assist subjects, and others to find subjects. but it was really hard to find people. alot refused. what more if we had to do this outside? alot were really shy. in the end, we mostly asked or forced our friends to take pictures.

DC89 Photography Immersion "Medina Point and Shoot"

Immersion.. vacation? all day sauna.. black and white, emotions come alive with less color. the difficulty these people faced, and still manage to keep a smile on their faces.

• the best and worst part of the trip was the cold springs. best part, its cold, all my exhaustion disappeared just from swimming. worst part, the sharp rock pierced my foot leaving a chipped fragment stuck like a thorn till the next day, thankfully pulled out by a classmate
• what else you wanna say about the trip
  
  
  i take it back, thats not the best part, there were too many. another one was in duka. while waiting for our section to return from Medina market, we took a ride in the glass boat. A bit costly but worth it. seeing fish as if youre underwater, a clear view of all the chorals. feeding the fish.. But we weren't allowed to jump in the water! they didnt tell us its "only for viewing". one of the best parts of duka bay is so far and off limits.
  
  
  lastly, im thankful our trip ended well. we all arrived safely and exhausted with a smile. it was really more of a vacation than immersion.

Temporary Food

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one”

-Mother Teresa

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody… I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. A young child eats alone inside their shanty in the shanty town of Baseco in Manila, Philippines. Photo by:Luis Liwanag

This photo represents a lot of things, but one thing's for certain, the main theme of this is basically poverty. As we see children come and go of age we wish a lot of things for them like having a good education, good nutrition and well of course, good parents, but as we look through today's society's growing masses of poverty we are deemed to foresee a greater amount of belay among what we see as a deteriorating future for our world. Basically we are to blame for this obscenity and we as individuals who have been given good education and proper living have all the luxuries and better yet give a little something back to help our society which is in need. Scraping one inch of bread is enough to feed a starving soul.

Imagine living inside a box, with nowhere else to go, no food to eat and the rain pouring real hard on you. How do you feel? Isn’t it horrible? Yet millions of people worldwide are living in these feeble conditions. It’s very piteous to think and accept the truth that we, Filipinos, belong to third world countries, who are really struggling hard to survive. Very often and as visible as we can see the many poor people wearing any piece of clothing just to have something to cover up their naked bodies, dig through trash to get food, and some others decide to be criminals just to take big amounts of money thinking that it would mean their last resort for them to live.