I got invited again by Christian Schlager of the World identity Lab website to contribute for their second project and I obliged. My first contribution was for their Identity Sucks project.

The Wishing Table, documents what one had for Christmas dinner and for my contribution, I submitted the noche buena for one work. Check worldidentitylab.net for the specific post.

To my surprise, Trizer Mansueto, one of the writers of our book, Balaanong Bahandi: Sacred Treasures of the Archdiocese of Cebu, included the full text of my speech which I delivered in behalf of the photographers during the book launch last 26 November. It was published in the 5 December issue of the Cebu Daily News, the regional sister publication of the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

This is the second time that I’ve been featured. The first was last 17 May in the Lifestyle section of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. It was an interview done by Angge Goloy about my transition from a telecoms engineer to a freelance photographer.

While it makes me beam with pride, I am also humbled.

A Ritual of Faith, my main work for my Diploma in Photojournalism course is finally up in Demotix. The photo story was done in Infanta, Quezon early this year and it includes around 12 select images.

Click below to check it out as well as to download the photo e-book.

View at Demotix

Slideshow and PDF download

Finally, World Identity Lab is online. A few weeks ago, they contacted me for their first project of which Franklin was the result and submitted to them. Do check it out by click ing on the images to go to the featured pages below.

After upload and server connection problems delayed me for more than an hour to submit these images, and two internet cafes later, it only took about half an hour for my photo story of Corazon “Cory” Aquino’s cortege as it passed by Ayala Avenue to be published at Demotix. All ten hi resolution photos that I selected among hundreds of images.

This is also my second submission to the multi awarded citizen journalism site. The first one was “The Rags of Bagong Barrio” that earned me to be featured in their widget.

What’s next? Hmmm, I still have to go over my stock images for stories that I did early this year or perhaps process and edit the series of portraits of the same event.