Photographer Manman Dejeto posing infront of Ben Lowy's work during ingress at the Podium Mall last year

Now on its third year to make a stop in Manila, the World Press Photo 2009 exhibit will open this 1 August until the 23rd of the month. It will be displayed in three venues.

Check out the slideshow below for behind-the-scenes as well as during the open dates that I took last year.

The guided educational tours for high school journalists and teachers will be from 11AM to 3PM on the following dates and venues:

August 9 – The Block, SM North-EDSA
August 15 – SM Mall of Asia
August 16 – SM Mall of Asia
August 22 – SM Mall of Asia
August 23 – SM Mall of Asia

2009 EXHIBITION IN MANILA / Philippines

FACT SHEET

SCHEDULE

The Podium
Ortigas Center, Pasig City

Sat 01 Aug 09   Exhibition open for public
Mon 03 Aug 09   18:30 h. Official opening
Sat 08 Aug 09   Last day of exhibition

The Block, SM North Edsa
Pasay City

Sun 09 Aug 09   Exhibition open for public
Mon 10 Aug 09   Official opening
Wed 19 Aug 09   Last day of exhibition

Mall of Asia
SM North EDSA, North Avenue corner EDSA, Quezon City

Thu 20 Aug 09   Exhibition open for public
Thu 20 Aug 09   18:30 h. Official opening
Sun 23 Aug 09   Last day of exhibition

EXHIBITION VISITING HOURS
Monday – Thursday       : 10:00-21:00
Friday – Sunday           : 10:00-22:00

THE EXHIBITION WILL BE OPENED BY
Representatives of Ateneo de Manila University, SM Malls, Unilever Philippines, the Royal Netherlands Embassy.

The simple yet beautiful facade of Poro Church in Camotes, Cebu

Yes, I’m finished with photo editing work, all 372 images, with the last one, Carmen Church, proving to be a challenge with all those wires at the façade. What is left to do is burn these jpegs to CDs, send one to the layout artist and another one to the printer for color separation. If the last batch proves to be okay, like the first, I’m done.

Whew! Never imagined that this shuttling back and forth between Makati and Cebu would finally come to an end after many months, as far as taking these images are concerned.

The second batch of images, around 150, printed for color check

Layout of the book should be done by September then confer with the layout artist and printer. It should be launched by the end of November.

I should be back in Makati by next week.

Blast from the past! Second part of my post of a beach outing circa 1989/90 from old negatives.

Series of shots from the beach outing. Some frames have already faded

4C class!!!

Kiosk at Danao beach

Neal and ? (left), Duccio (right)

Jonathan and Dayok

Joseph Louie

Scan from a negative circa 89/90 of my high school classmates during an outing at the beach. In left photo is Dayok and Gifford.

While looking through the files of my hard drive, this scan of one of my old negatives caught my attention. It was a beach scene taken during an outing with my classmates in high school either 3rd or 4th year.

As for the negative, it’s really in a bad state with some mold on the surface as well as scratches. As you might notice, there are horizontal lines, marks of inexperience as I developed it myself and have pressed the foam too hard on the material when I wiped off water.

Objects found and seen early this morning in northern Cebu.

SANTO CRISTO. Found at a shaman's ware below the Sogod Church grounds. It is said to protect from evil and thievery.

ALICE IS DEAD. Found atop the ruins of Escuela Catolica in Catmon which was erected in 1879.

HEADLESS SWIFT. Found at the foot of the stairs of the Sogod Church belfry slowly devoured by ants.