i'd thought of them as an extinct species--the prevalence of digital photography should've wiped out their market share--but give churches, plazas and parks around the philippines a visit, and you should find a few of them still standing around, waiting for anybody with the itching need for a decent picture but unlucky (or should i say, lucky?) enough to not have a camera with them. probably not as plentiful as they were in the past, but there they are, the men who have played the part of the chronicler of our lives, arresting the fleeting shape of our memories and pressing them on paper.
i feel this is a project i can expand with more pictures, a project where the maniniyot's roles have been reversed: instead of being behind the camera, the maniniyots are now in front of the camera.
err... not so sure about this guy, though...
pictures taken around sto nino church, cebu, september 2006 and may 2010; magellan's cross, cebu, june 2006; at the plaza in front of the dalaguete church, april 2010; the plaza in front of ormoc city hall, february 2010; and at the luneta, manila, march 2010
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