Dokyu Slides

The WIld Wild West

2008-01-21T13:06:00.000-08:00

About two decades ago, these children playing without a care in the world wouldn't have been possible. These kids live in a mining community on Mt. Diwalwal which in the not too distant pasr was populated by denizens of the underworld, lost commands, and anybody who in some way have lost their will to live among us and chose to search for gold elsewhere. In the 1980's a gold rush in Mt. Diwalwal gave birth to a town where guns and gold ruled. Gun duels were everyday fare and the death toll kept rising. It was a survival of the fittest.
Today , there is peace and women and children need not live in fear.There is a schoolhouse. a health center, and an economy built on gold revenues.
The only real problem is with iver a 100,000 population and without a real eco-government policy, Mt.Diwalwal might soon become an ecological nightmare.

Mere propagenda or truth?

2007-10-30T10:46:00.000-07:00

Found:

2007-08-13T06:58:00.000-07:00

A dear friend, fellow photographer Alan Dejecacion from San Francisco found this old image he took of me in the mid 90's when we went to see "The great John Lee Hooker" (as far as i can recall) at Yoshi's blues bar in Oakland.Taken with a Leica M6.This image really gives me the blues.

Quiapo Hula

2007-07-24T16:09:00.000-07:00

Standing out in the crowd, this young woman patirntly waits fro her fortune and destiny to be foretold by the Fortune tellers of Quiapo

The lightbearer

2007-07-23T10:58:00.000-07:00

A team shoot while winding down after the SONA of PGMA..We had nothing else to do so we turned on our slave strobes and started jumping around Commonwealth avenue at dusk.John Javellana,Gil Nartea, Jes Aznar,Akira Liwanag, Buck Pago were all there

FHM 100 sexiest

2007-07-12T14:55:00.000-07:00

FHM GANGSTA article

2007-07-11T18:29:00.000-07:00

LINK to my photos on FHM

The Leica Freedom Train

2007-07-11T11:37:00.000-07:00

Cross posting

2007-07-11T10:30:00.000-07:00

I don't know that Multiply is such fun.I have not bee updating this site for a long time because initially I found it hard to maintain. This is just a test.

Children's lives

2007-02-15T16:22:00.000-08:00

Look Back (may take some time to load)

2007-02-15T16:00:00.000-08:00

In 1983, a group of fellow photojournalists and myself set out to join a long trek from the Southern Province of Laguna and walked hundreds of kilometers to Manila. We were documenting thousands of Peasant folk who were out to boycott the elections. The battlecry of the times were, "Dismantle US Marcos Dictatorship, Boycott Elections!".

A few days ago marked the start of the campaign period for the Midterm elections. Two decades ago , the signs of the times are the same. The people needed the government to taka real care of it's people.Today, the issues remain the same. Nothing has really changed since then.