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Young girl walking by a mausoleum in Manila South Cemetery.
In the Philippines, particularly in densely populated cities like Manila, thousands of impoverished families reside within cemeteries. This phenomenon stems primarily from severe poverty, lack of affordable housing, and internal migration. Many arrive seeking work as grave caretakers, masons, or vendors, eventually building makeshift homes on or within mausoleums. Conditions are often dire, lacking basic sanitation, clean water, and electricity, yet cemeteries offer a semblance of free shelter and livelihood opportunities for those with nowhere else to go.
Large and longer thunder storm over Makati city, but the 2 cranes opposite just carried on working working throughout, I would not like to be the operator on one of those.
Shot on film (fuji C200) with a pentax Mz-7 + DA 50mm, edited in lightroom. I did a digital capture of this image and it was sharper and cleaner, but somehow the film managed to capture more colours.
Business as usual, even with the impending closure (for renovation) of Makati's Old Guard, the Greenbelt 1 mall
After going thru some files, I've realized that I have started taking pictures of upcoming storms since January 2006.
Taken at our old condo in Manila using my good ol' Canon Ixus40.