Baseco through the elements

With Music composed by "ASIN"

Newsbreak July 31 issue is out on the stands!!!

A woman braves the waves to retrieve recyclable items from the sea of garbage

Swimming on a windy day

The garbage and the sea

BASECO:A forsaken land

Responding from a phone call from residents of Baseco, a community nestled along the coastline of Manila Bay, I pack up my camera gear, and wearing my oversized slippers I started to brave the brewing storm. A village submerged in seawater and garbage welcomes me.

Two siblings peek out from a small window

Impending storm

A resident sits on top of a washed out fresh water well near his hut

The raging sea at their doorstep

foamy whitewater

Children bathe in the filthy waters

residents scrounge for any useful object brought in by the sea

The beach

Welcome to Baseco

evacuating

winds blow hard

Noodles,storm and a new day

An elemental Day has just passed.Emotions swirl and the mind's tides get caught in the upheaval of nature.It was a rather windy and rainy day for my emotions. Another morning finally arrives and I see Isis basking in a warm envelope of light while diving and slurping her way into a hot plate of noodles .
That's the perk i needed to pull me out of the doldrums of life and face the next sandstorm of life.

Dog and noodles

Greenpeace activists walk to an "Action"

Glorietta, Makati

Fists of Rage

A new wave of protest rallies aparked by a spate of political killings involving political activists in the country.President Arroyo recently signed the bill abolishing the death penalty in the country and almost at the same time ordered the Philippine military to go on an all-out war against the communist New People's Army.

An activist leader shields a fist from hitting it's mark; the bloody face of a fellow protester suspected of being an infiltrator during a protest rally against the spate of political killings in the country

Killings continue

women in Black protests in front of Camp Aguinaldo

women killed

psywar

women cry for justice

Ortigas Center

Mordor

Greenpeace volunteers take Action

Stop Polluting our Fish

GreenPeace volunteers wear shark masks to protest the reopening of Lafayette Mines

Move Over American Idol...

Newsbreak issue for July 3 (photo: Luis Liwanag)

Independence Day 2006

Flag Dance

An independence day float

Colorful catterpilar dance

Effigies and monuments

Bayan Muna lawmaker Satur Ocampo

young women in spanish-time attire

costumed youth from different regions perform

Cutouts of National artists are paraded

A hobbyist photographer searches for his right angle

leftist protesters and church groups converge into an interfaith prayer rally

Flag dance

Faces in the crowd

Cultural singers sing patriotic songs at the Indepencence Day Parade

motorists get a glimpse of the outcry

freeing oneself

Riot police stepped in when protesters managed to grab an undercover cop's video camera and a clip of bullets

"No to cha-cha" protest

Struggling to be in school

School opens; We see faces of excited young freshmen who will be spending the first few days of high school life coping with the lack of classroom space.
President Arroyo in a statement denied that there is a serious shortage of classrooms in the Phillippines and publicly reprimanded her Secretary of Education for declaring just the opposite