http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/issues/gender-issues/87603-film-photography-nana-buxani
This comes as a late post. The article by A.g. De Mesa on Rappler for it’s feature on Women’s month.
WORKPLACE. On the table where Nana dines you can find books, prints, mementos side by side with the
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Workers
Banana plantation workers belonging to the Tagabawa-Bagobo indigenous communities work as farm labourers and members of a cooperative that run an organic banana plantation at the foot of Mt. Apo, in Baranggay Sibulan, Mindanao. Photo/Copyright Nana Buxani
At rest. Banana plantation workers, Baranggay Sibulan, Mindanao. Photo/Copyright Nana Buxani
Harvesting organic bananas from the foot of Mt. Apo, Baranggay Sibulan, Mindanao. Photo/Copyright Nana Buxani
At the foot of Mt. Apo in Mindanao, a cooperative run by Lumads in Sibulan, a highland baranggay home to the Tagabawa-Bagobo indigenous communities, grow organic bananas for export. In celebration of Labour Day, we honour the farm labourers and cooperative members. #MayoUno, #workers, #LabourDay, #bananaplantation, #Mindanao, #MtApo, Photo/Copyright Nana Buxani
Portrait: Tagabawa-Bagobo, Banana Plantation Worker/from the series: Workers
Photo/Copyright Nana Buxani
The Photographer’s sketchbooks
This is a behind the scene look at my photo sketchbooks, and photographic prints, some of them. Through the years I made visual diaries/notes/drawings/pasted pictures, wrote thoughts, musings, observations, and some of my invoices were hand written on these sketchbooks, pasted receipts so I wouldn’t forget. Itineraries, bus tickets, boat rides, tryke , jeepney , motorbike rides, gasoline expenses, meal allowances, ideas, plans, the years behind and ahead. My dreams. Where I have been, where I am going, where i would want to be.. ..and some really personal thoughts: heartaches, moments of sanity, and some insanities, despairs, inertias, when i feel I have stopped moving, my goals..my contacts, like a black book of names, places, feelings, emotional highs and lows. Every year I open the sketchbooks. To remind myself.. Where, who, what, and how I managed all the years, as a freelance photographer,artist, documentary cinematographer, places I have documented, to keep me grounded .why..I need and want to keep on doing what I love best, about my work. The world.. my world is full, alive, changing, constant, unpredictable and I am a participant. It is indeed a wealth to read the photographer’s sketchbook. A very personal way of knowing oneself. My creative self. To learn. again and again.. Where are you at now, where are you going. What attracts you to certain things, what keeps you going, why the need to remind yourself, it is the being there, the moment..the thoughts, engagements, very much like touching base the innermost of my being, who are you? past, present and my thoughts tomorrow.
The Slum-Episodes 1-6
The documentary I was shooting for six months (July 2013 to January 2014) for AlJazeera English Directed by Paul Roy, is now available for viewing.
Here is the viewing schedule: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/the-slum/2014/09/how-watch-slum-2014911144510305781.html?fb_action_ids=10205042609334343&fb_action_types=og.recommends
Click on the youtube playlist on the upper left to view Episodes 1 to 6.
Werner Herzog on Creativity, Self-Reliance, Making a Living of What You Love, and How to Turn Your Ideas Into Reality by Maria Popova
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/08/18/werner-herzog-guide-for-the-perplexed-cronin/
My films come to me very much alive, like dreams, without explanation. I never think about what it all means. I think only about telling a story, and however illogical the images, I let them invade me. An idea comes to me, and then, over a period of time — perhaps while driving or walking — this blurred vision becomes clearer in my mind, pulling itself into focus.
fotolatitudes 
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