10/04/2010
Hi all,
I just wanted to link you all to my latest project blog.
“Balikbayan” is a Filipino word referring to an individual who lives outside the Philippines returning for a visit. It is a composite word comprising of the word ‘balik’ meaning ‘to return’ and ‘bayan’ meaning ‘country,’ ‘community,’ ‘village,’ or ‘my house.’ (more…)
02/07/2009
Jersey Boys (#0189)
All photos are available for sale to the artists. Please contact me directly for a pricelist: alex.felipe@gmail.com
There are multiple images for each artist, most are not posted here, so please email me (with your name and the number underneath the photo of you) and I will send you low res samples of all your images.
In this album are photos from the afterparty, please CLICK HERE to see the backstage album.
Contact: alex.felipe@gmail.com
01/07/2009
All photos are available for sale to the artists. Please contact me directly for a pricelist: alex.felipe@gmail.com
There are multiple images for each artist, most are not posted here, so please email me (with your name and the number underneath the photo of you) and I will send you low res samples of all your images.
These are partially unfinished images, purchased images will be photoshopped fully.
In this album are photos from backstage, please CLICK HERE for photos from the afterparty.
Contact: alex.felipe@gmail.com
07/06/2009
[I recieved an honourable mention in the 2009 National Magazine Awards for the photos and story below. Originally published in This Magazine.]
Admitting that I was a Canadian has never been as difficult as when I travelled to the Philippines to photograph two Canadian-owned open-pit mining sites last winter. The fact that I am also Filipino by blood didn’t help. (more…)
18/05/2009
These are some random photos from the Native Earth fall season shoot. The images were shot at Six Nations Reserve.
Learn more HERE: www.nativeearth.ca
Watch the launch video HERE.
Watch how it was created HERE.
22/03/2009
My recent run in with the military has resulted in a concern from people both in Canada and here in the Philippines. Even the NGO peeps I work with that deal with this sort of situation all the time have been asking whether I’m ok, whether I was afraid. People have even gone to call me brave. Very strange.
19/03/2009
Jocelyn Polborido's family home.
It was 4am, the sun was still a long time from rising, and rain was falling when I woke up to make breakfast with the one other guy in the group. We were in Balinak, Ligao, Bikol, a town at the end of the road—literally.
The single paved lane wove around the rolling hills of the land around Mt. Mayon, it ended at the basketball court of Balinak, a simple village that still consisted of many nipa hut homes, a village with a sad recent story.
18/03/2009
The rains came and went for the few days I was in Bikol. The bus window showed evidence of this less than seasonal weather. It was dusk, and the sky was finally clearing, the clouds in my mind had also started to break.
07/03/2009
I lived here in 2001 with my family. The simple house of corregated iron, plywood, and cinderblock was by active traintracks.
I’ve been in the Philippines a few days now with the Kilusan Collective and I am lost in a sea of conflicting thoughts, much of it stemming from an inner debate as to my responsibilities as a balikbayan [returning Filipino living abroad] and my purpose in this project.
25/07/2009
Connecting The Dots: Mining, the Philippines, and Canada
Posted by alexfelipe under Canadian Politics, Commentary, The Philippines | Tags: bill c-300, corporate social responsibility, economy, human rights, mining, philippines, poverty |[3] Comments
I am not a gold person. This didn’t start with any activism, or with any real reason other than the fact that I’m just not a jewelry person period. I simply have never felt the desire for shiny that most people seem to possess.
Now that I know how the extractive process affects people (including those that look like me), I consider myself lucky.
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