Hong Kong. Elpidio Juan

Interesting article from the New York Times on photography in the Philippines. My wife is originally from the Philippines and I’m glad to read that photography is thriving. There are some nice shots, with a focus on street photography and it’s interesting that many of them were taken by expatriate filipinos living abroad.

When Rick Rocamora left his career selling pharmaceuticals to become a photographer in 1990, he was guided by the advice and encouragement of everyone from Eli Reed and Ed Kashi to Gordon Parks. He has been paying it forward ever since, serving as a mentor to a new generation of Filipino photographers, both in Manila and among his native country’s far-flung diaspora.Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, he stays in touch with them through social media, offering critiques and suggesting work to study. The result of that relationship is “Unscripted … Unpredictable,” an exhibition of street photography that opens Thursday at the Vargas Museum at the University of the Philippines.

via Photographing a Filipino View of the Streets – NYTimes.com.