If you are in Manila you can see the works until June 21.
If not you can see the pictures of the show
here.
My friends at MyPH featured the show - thanks.
Tribal Warfare
People love to form tribes, groups where you belong to, that give you some level of security and comfort with established rules that differentiate you from other tribes. A gay club in Hong Kong, an art group in San Francisco, merry Bavarians in their traditional costumes or fierce head hunters in the Cordilleras, they all are tribes.
I am no permanent part of any tribe. I never joined a fraternity, a sports club nor church. But I visit tribes and interact with them. Coming from the outside I become the participating observer and then document a tribe's curiosities. I stay as long until the curve of diminishing return reaches a level that tells me that it would be more fruitful to start all over again in a new tribe.
I am not a journalist (although I sometimes use it as a conduct). I have no choice. Many of the traits that allow people to bind into a tribe are not accessible for me and repetition, a common form of reaffirmation of belonging, is torture for me.
You need to have the distance of an outsider to be able to recognize the speciality of a tribe. But you also need to be close so you can get their trust and finally you need to retreat again to be able to mentally digest.
I study tribes. I am trying to find out what makes them do the things they do. Like a cartoonist I highlight what I discover. My photographs are in effect - cartoons.
OneWorkshop Gallery
La Fuerza Plaza II, Sabio st.
Along the back entrance to San Lorenzo Village
near the corner to Pasong Tamo where the Mazda showroom is.
Please call : 8105094 for directions.
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