Chaps from Bagong Silang


  • Photographer
    Tomasz Gudzowaty
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    11/20/2013
  • Technical Info
    Linhof analog camera 4x5"

The local community baptized the area Bagong Silang which means "newborn" in Tagalog. Ironically, the center of this slum neighborhood is the public cemetery of Navotas, a municipality located directly north of Manila. About 500 families dwell within the walls of the cemetery in makeshift houses built atop the concrete blocks of tombs. There are many families here who try to live a normal life in those humiliating conditions. The main problem among young people is crime and violence, but most of them keep dreaming about getting out from the depressing place.

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