keeping it (more) REAL
depending on who you ask, 1-5% of the population here can afford to shop in the luxury malls we've been hanging out in, in makati.
i needed to see some of the rest of manila.
(reportage photographers) geric and paolo came and picked us up and drove us out of makati.
1st stop 'vitas' and a below-the-poverty-line community of people living amidst the constant bonfires they build to turn reclaimed wood into charcoal, which they then sell for a dollar or two.
paolo parked up in a shell garage down the road and we took a 2up tricycle (motorbike and side'car') towards oncoming traffic the wrong side up the main road.
(apologies for the overdue post: it's taken me a while to get a moment to get to this: tiring full days).
geric cruz
i'm not trying to be a ghetto tourist...
but i think i have a responsibility to see.
living in makati (recently) it's possible to completely ignore what's just around the corner.
i have been to many slums around the world: it doesn't get any emotionally easier, ever.
i want to bring our sons back to manila so they can realise how incredibly fortunate they are.
basquiat
pool manila slums style
unexpectedly, there are also locally made booths for rationing facebook and playing online computer games / watching dvds
took a jeepney to geric's folk's place for BBQ chicken and squid with cheese washed down with RC cola (only available in the philipines): AMAZING.
room for rent
after some lunch and rehydration, returned to 'happy land' a squatted ex factory estate where people were living in incredible conditions.
lunch in the slums...
could have been (congealed) blood cubes or grilled chicken intestines: mmm
be 100%
uzi
dia antwoord
i'm disappointed i can't capture the experience of being here eloquently enough.
in 2d you don't get the sense of these places: the smell or how dirty the dirt is.
seeing the children is the hardest part of being here.
unsupervised from birth, pretty much, and living it absolute squalor: always smiling: 'hello, take my picture'
GOD BLESS YOU US!!!
rush hour
these kids are stealing anything they can off a truck that's stopped in traffic, on a three land main road.
ED what the F?
HARD CORE...
dinner at the rockwell club back in makati.
maria retouching till 1am with me and miguel sharing some strongbow back at our air conditioned hotel rooms with all mod cons
late and exhausted to bed again
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