Kumeta, 52, said he repeatedly asked himself, “what do I really want to shoot” and “what kind of film should I make,” when he recorded more than 200 hours of footage in the Manila slums.

Like other slums in the Tondo area of Manila, Philippines, there’s no clean water supply or sanitation. Residents pay to fill water containers from a nearby condominium, and trenches funnel ...

In the slums of Manila, Kiwi nurse Jessa Pontevedra goes from shack to shack, using a new tool to fight tuberculosis. Nicholas Jones and Mike Scott went with her. It’s often necessary to crouch ...

eating and selling pagpag is a way of life in slums like Payatas Morning traffic rattles through the slum district of Payatas in Quezon City, just north of Metro Manila. It is 9am but over 30 ...

Having grown up in Manila’s slums, scavenging for food to survive, Domagoso sees his political career as nothing short of a blessing. The fact that he now has the chance to serve the same city ...

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Nearly a decade ago, the Philippine drug war raged, and desperate people tried to avoid former President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly crackdown ...