Political Animals 01

Lord of Immunity, Master of Impunity

Freddy Boi

Gong Bo

Sal Panini

Barry Porqe

Pete Allen

Manila Girls : Manila Madness

Sharing a pretty picture of Manila seems pretentious where everything in the city is the contrary. Let these ladies show you a different angle where each borough is unpleasing at first glance but then grows beautifully in you. These are the love child of Manila’s madness and the Filipino obsession of personalities and beauty pageants. These are the Manila Girls.

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Portraits

 

 

 

 

Amanda Gorman

 

TikTok sa Intrmuros

 

Hermes Mercurio

 

 

Filipino actor, Ronnie Lazaro as Hermes Mercurio from the film "Oro, Plata, Mata" directed by Peque Gallaga in 1982.

Nena Ojeda

 

"Sapat na ang minsan."

Filipina actress, Liza Lorena as Nena Ojeda from the film, "Oro, Plata, Mata" (1982) directed by Peque Gallaga.

Dra. Jo Russell

 

"Kapag nagawa mong pasarapin ang lalake... Hawak mo na siya sa ilong."

Filipina actress, Mitch Valdez as Dra. Jo Russell from the film "Oro, Plata, Mata" (1982) directed by Peque Gallaga,

Trining

 

 

 

"Naging hayop ang lahat sa atin ang digmaang ito. Ginawa tayong hayop lahat."

 

Filipina actress, Cherie Gil as Trining Ojeda, from the film "Oro, Plata, Mata" (Gold, Silver Death). Directed by Peque Gallaga in 1982.

Nora Aunor

 "My brother is not a pig!"

Filipina actress, Nora Aunor as Corazon "Cora' dela Cruz from the film "Minsa'y Isang Gamu-gamo" (EN: Sometimes a Moth) in 1976.

Joshua Wong

 

 "You don't need role models to be part of a social movement as long as you care about the issues."

Lourd de Veyra

"Aso Cigarette"

Pepe Smith

  "But it's better to burn out than to fade away because Pinoy Rock is here to stay."

Xiao Chua

 

"It's Miao Time!"

Amy Winehouse

"Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen."

Ai Weiwei

 

"Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression."

Against the dying of the light

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

- Dylan Thomas

Manila Bay • Roxas Boulevard

“But man is not made for defeat," he said.
"A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

Noon Break

Shark & Duck