Essays and Features

 The Changing Filipino Indigenous Culture

The Philippines is home to a large number of indigenous groups. Through the years, succeeding waves of migration and colonization have pushed them into the interior highlands of the islands where physical isolation helped them retain their customs and traditions. However, improving access to roads, mainstream education, and media is changing their culture as the younger generations slowly assimilate into mainstream culture. 

http://hannah.ph/2073756-indigenous-transitions#1

Hannah Reyes is a photographer currently living in Phnom Penh. She is represented by National Geographic Creative.

Malana, an isolated hill top village in the Kullu valley of the Himalayan ranges is famous for its local hashish with high oil content. Malana was inaccessible until recently because of its forbidding terrain and a belief system that prohibited interaction with outsiders. Their form of self governance traditionally resisted any interference from the Indian government. Guided by the ancient rules laid by their local deity, Malana follows one of the oldest forms of democracy in the world. Cannabis grows freely in large swathes of region around Malana.

http://homegrown.co.in/5-compelling-series-by-indian-photojournalists-that-lend-us-perspective-vol-ii/

Published in „HOMEGROWN„: Young India’s Route To Their Roots And Beyond. We are an Urban Youth Lifestyle Media Company: Online Publication + Creative Lab

Transit is a project based on the intra-city railway system in Singapore, the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT). Built in 1987, it is used by 2.8 million people daily. Using photography, the author paints a collective portrait of commuters, capturing the daily theatre that the eye fails to see. 

„As commuters today, we distract ourselves endlessly with our smartphones or iPads, to anaesthetise ourselves from the unnatural and uncomfortable experience of transit. We create private spaces for ourselves in the most public of spaces. 

As commuters, we observe an unspoken rule not to stare at each other’s misery. As a photographer, I broke that last rule twice over – I recorded the stare, and continue to be amazed by what the stare reveals“. (by Edwin Koo)

The book will be launched at the National Museum of Singapore on 7 April, 2015. 

http://www.transit.photo/#about