A flock of racing pigeons fly circles around their trainer perched on a rooftop. Pigeon racing, long a favorite past time in Metro Manila, has become a truly global sport with bets that could go as high as millions of dollars. (General Luna Street, Intramuros, Manila)
Raymund Villanueva
Street Shooter: Second-Hand Toilet Bowls
With an odious economy, is it any surprise that even second hand toilet bowls are for sale in the Philippines? (Butuan City, Agusan del Norte)
Street Shooter: City Sunset
A television tower seems to pierce the fiery sun as its prepares to set over the city. (University Avenue, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City)
Street Shooter: “Karambola”
A four-vehicle pile up on the country’s most dangerous road–Commonwealth Avenue (Quezon City)
Street Shooter: Water Fetching
A diminutive Aeta woman, not even five feet tall, balances a basket containing a ten-gallon container full of water on her head as she negotiates a steep incline. Members of her community did not have ready access to drinking water despite that fact that they live in a government relocation site within former President Gloria…
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Street Shooter: Street Sumo
Men push their recalcitrant ride to a parking spot. The vehicle was totally submerged in Ondoy floodwaters. (Commonwealth, Quezon City)
Street Shooter: Tandem
Dog and human enjoying a Sunday morning “tandem” ride. (Fairview, Quezon City)
Street Shooter: Tribal Music
Ifugao tribesmen play their gongs as they wait for a community meeting to start to discuss the ill effects of foreign mining in their ancestral land. (Alimit, Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya)
Street Shooter: Mode of delivery
Women on their way to the market bring tubs, not baskets, so they can just let them float on the flooded streets. (Kalawaan, Pasig City)
Street Shooter: Bad News
Bad News