these pictures were taken during my sick leave in the philippines. it just so happened that there was a scheduled tv shoot where i was staying for a while in manila. it was for the tv series pedro penduko.
citizens of the philippines-a tropical archipelago of 7,107 islands located in the far east; a people known for their resilience and adaptability, having been colonized for several hundred years by spain and later by the united states of america and japan; now totalling 90 million of which 10 million are somewhere around the world - a diaspora of sorts.