Message from Langfia Ayeona
Barlig Mt Province Philippines, is my home village where I learn to live life the hard but simple way. My father's ancestry is from Barlig and Talubin. My mother is a native Barlig and a half Spanish.
The adventure of using this camera seems to find it's root from the challenge of my culture that is quickly vanishing into time and history. I anguish for the beautiful tradition of the Igorot Tribe that is diminishing because of time and modernization of existence. I thought picturing them literally is a way appreciation and declaring these indigenous gifts given to us. The first time I saw and held someone's professional camera reminded me of those innocent years that was filled with much wish to have one but never had the means to meet this suppressed interest. For very long years and finally got a job in the busy city of Manila, I was inspired by my employer, Mr. Ed Gerlock, an ex-missionary and a great photographer, who I also consider a good friend and a mentor. From then the door from my inner different culture towards an experience of working with the poor and neglected elderly in the suburbs of Metro Manila challenged me and changed my ways of looking at life through photography. It aims not just to capture what is seen but to document anything around of what is possibly lost, a daily life at present or the future, the stories, expression, values, issues, culture and nature. It is with hope that through the camera, it will bring justice to the beauty of Barlig and the Igorot Tribe as it deserves. May this camera be an opportunity to see light and darkness that surround life.
I studied SW as a profession and currently changing career to Nursing. For this reason I consider myself more as photography hobbyist, quite a beginner most of the time!
Thank you for dropping by.
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