The Urban Poor.

Hapilan - Happyland - Happy Land.

 

Comments

[Valjean]

Your articles are for when it absolutely, positively, needs to be understood overignht.

[Oggi]

Great (but sad) images...very depressing.

Here's my attempt at translating (second photo).

Hey! Don't be such a pig. Don't pee on here and no littering too. Have some pride; you're shameless. Ptooey!

[Doug Hickok]

Your photography is fantastic. Quite moving and different from what we're accustomed to seeing.

[Otto K.]

excellent set. I really like the light in the first one.

[Kristen]

I think with the poor hearing a podcast about poor Guatemalan children, are sometimes just happy to be recognized as people.. so their smiling at you maybe isn't such a shock to me. I like the writing on the wall one though I do wonder what it says. Perhaps you can subtitle it in your post or tell us here?

[Ashley Albano]

OMG!! I'm speechless.. Do you go out on your own to these sites?

[Gérard]

et la jeune fille reste coquette c'est incroyable dans ce magma

[Krunal]

great shots, love the 2nd one

[don]

A fine, varied series. I like the long hall way shot very much. The pretty woman and the cute youngster seem so out-of-place in these poverty stricken places.

[dong ho]

images that will touch one's heart and mind.

[didier]

tes images ont des teintes et des textures impressionnantes !
la misère est une terrible maladie créee par l'homme..

[noel]

Great shots very nice cpatures

[Donato]

hi Sidney,

Top quality and expressive photography here, a great and interesting reportage about the poor people of Manila. Each photo is a masterpiece. I like them a lot.
Best compliments,
Donato

[Fokkio]

How bad and messy it is there, the photos are beautiful. The people are beautiful.

[Anina Botes]

Great street shots. I love how each one tells a story.

[John]

Very powerful images of poverty

[jpla]

Depuis plusieurs jours mes messages ne passaient pas. Je te souhaite une agréable journée
JP

[jpla]

coucou

[Kala]

Fabulous perspective in the first image. They are all good photographs.

[k@]

Les expressions très différentes offrent des émotions tout aussi diverses, un panorama humain où la douleur de vivre semble transparaître plus que la douceur... Tjs aussi humain & passionnant.

[Zing]

I like the second shot with the writing on the wall. Great shots!

[buntagphoto]

Great series of environmental portraits. That writing is pretty amusing in its own way, and I love the weird combination od images in that person's wall.

[docgelo]

i like the last shot; it affects me as a parent.

your photos are always powerful!
they really convey messages even sans text.
bravo, sidney!
mabuhay ka! :D

[Ginnie]

The collective artistic ability of the people in such places would probably blow us away, Sidney!

[pieterbie]

Living there.
How do these people do it?
Great pictures indeed!