WHAT WE LONG FOR (Ongoing) – Not the final title

_{The project, which includes studio and archival photographs as well as short experimental films, explores the emotional cost of labor migration on Filipino migrant workers and their left-behind families. Drawing from a collection of cassette tapes and old photographs from the 1990s, it delves into the personal and collective experiences of separation and longing. This is an exhibition-in-the-making that serves as an extension of the ongoing full-length documentary film, Magnetic Letters.}

_{*I am still accepting cassette tapes and old photographs from Filipino migrant workers.}

IN TRANSIT (Made for the National Geographic Young Explorer Award)

_{The photo project examines the effects of urbanization and tourism on local communities and landscapes in Boracay (Visayas), Batad Rice Terraces (Luzon), and Lake Sebu (Mindanao). It reveals the changing lifestyle of the residents, which has become increasingly reliant on the influx of foreign tourists. As a result, many locals have transformed into guides and business owners, while their homes have been repurposed as transient accommodations, altering both their daily lives and the surrounding environment. In Boracay, the privatization of land has left many original settlers with only small plots, while in Lake Sebu, locals have actively engaged in the local government’s tourism initiatives, establishing cultural centers and generating income through fishing and beadmaking. Made from 2016 to 2019.}