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Images of Life: Metro Manila

100 images Created 2 Nov 2013

A visual journey of the human condition: the culture and everyday life in the Philippines

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  • …where there is an alley, a small street that stretches below the sidewalk level and otherwise hidden from public view, there are usually a pair of sharp eyes to keep watch of the comings and goings of the people residing or doing business below…and looking out for the occasional stranger that wanders nearby..
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  • Vehicle maintenance is a group effort; the group watches while you do the maintaining...
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  • Sitting comfortably in front of their home and watching as the world goes past.
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  • A work crew taking a break, quickly grabbing a smoke, a drink, and a few minutes to chat.
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  • A group of hard working laborers taking a morning break on the curb.
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  • A grandmother is shown her image captured by fellow photographer's camera.
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  • Outside of a shoe repair shop, a stack of footwear  post repair
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  • While waiting in a cue to pick up passengers, a jeepney driver and his conductor quickly sneak in a late morning meal.
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  • People work and people eat. It is always amazing (for me) when I see sidewalk grills set up with strips of meat or BBQ on a stick, with the fragrant fog of the seared smoked meat rising up to attack the nostrils of the pedestrians that pass by. Hopefully, for the person doing the cooking, it entices you to sample his fare of the day. I think these fast food pit stops are strategically placed well travelled intersections, highway on ramps and taxi stands, which sometimes raises questions about what smoke is one really inhaling..
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  • Passengers sit stuck in traffic on a bus without air conditioning at the end of another hot day in Manila.
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  • A couple seem unconcerned about the vehicles speeding past in traffic as they snack on the median.
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  • Street vendors make their way between vehicles stopped in traffic to display their offerings for sale to the passengers inside.
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  • Two of Manila's Finest on the back of a motorcycle
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  • Reflection of a jeepney driver's wrinkled face in his rear view mirror. When American troops began to leave the Philippines at the end of WWII, hundreds of surplus jeeps were sold or given to local Filipinos, who stripped down and altered the jeeps to accommodate more passengers, added metal roofs for shade, and decorated the vehicles with vibrant colors and bright chrome hood ornaments. Most of these jeepneys have radically expanded passenger capacities, and are flamboyant and noisy. Many are notorious for belching smoke, and almost all are diesel, though efforts are underway to make these metal behemoths more efficient with alternative fuels.
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  • In Metro Manila, an aged jeepney driver and his conductor manuever through the rain soaked streets in search of passengers.
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  • Inside the church, three  women listen intently to the message given by the priest before the offering of communion. Among Roman Catholics in the Philippines and various Filipino communities worldwide, Our Mother of Perpetual Help is widely venerated. Pope John Paul II once held mass here where the devotion is very popular and many Catholic churches hold a Novena and Mass honoring it every Wednesday using a replica of the icon, which is also widely displayed in houses, buses and public transport in the Philippines.
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  • Rain drenched Filipinos gathered in the street to listen to the broadcast of the championship bout between hero Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley, who lost in a lopsided bout with the superstar Pacman.
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  • Chaotic scene inside Fisherman's Wharf in Paranaque City at 3 AM, where the fresh catch is bought & sold based on negotiation through the practiced art of "whispered" prices.
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  • Fisherman's Wharf in Paranaque City, Metro Manila, at 3 AM, where the fresh catch is bought in off the boats by the fishermen & sold wholesale to vendors and retail to locals based on "bulungan" (whispered prices between buyer and seller).
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  • Filipinos are very religious, with more than 90% of the population being Christian -  about 80% belong to the Roman Catholic Church - and nearly 10% are Muslim. Here, a taxi cab driver carries with him his ride-along companions of choice..
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  • local police strike pose on duty in Makati City.
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  • Two boys pass by a pet vendor and a line of men waiting to make purchases from the selection of the  various choices displayed in the cages.
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  • Taking a ride inside of a Jeepney through suburban streets of Metro Manila. Jeepneys are often colorful and always crowded and is the most popular means of mass transportation in the Philippines; they are made over from US military jeeps left behind after WWII.
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