Text by: Kimmy Baraoidan Photos by: Chris Quintana and Kimmy Baraoidan Longevity and endurance are hard to come by these days with fast-changing times, disposable things, and instant everything. Embercore built itself from the ground up. Since 2007, the group has been putting piece by piece together with buckets of sweat, long hours of practice,…
Text by: Kimmy Baraoidan Photos by: Chris Quintana and Kimmy Baraoidan Surfing, the beach, good music. That’s Nalu Music Fest in a nutshell. Three days of paradise. Who wouldn’t want to go? To temporarily escape work and domestic responsibilities was always a welcome opportunity for me. We arrived a few minutes before midnight at the…
Text by: Kimmy Baraoidan Photos by: Chris Quintana and Kimmy Baraoidan I grabbed a cold bottle of beer at Fred’s the night of April 30, with hopes of drowning the summer heat. It barely did; it was a sweltering 30 degrees Celsius and 71 percent humidity (according to timeanddate.com) even at night. It was literally…
Text and photos by Chris Quintana Salcedo Park in the Philippines’ center of commerce. And here I was again walking along the concrete and marble forest of the Makati CBD. It's been a few years since I was back here. I used to walk these streets at the heart of the business district - mostly empty…
Text by: Kimmy Baraoidan The second speaker for this year's TEDxADMU was Paul Rivera, the founder and CEO of Kalibrr. Kalibrr is a job portal that aims to more accurately match job applicants and employers based mainly on skills. It aims to revolutionize how companies are hiring. Leaving his job at Google, Rivera took a leap…
Text by: Kimmy Baraoidan Hipster stuff. That’s what one of my clients said I was doing when I told him that I would be away for a day to attend TEDxADMU. One of my life goals is to attend a 'main' TED Talk in the U.S. However, at the moment, I’m financially challenged, so that…
Text by: Kimmy Baraoidan Photos by: Chris Quintana and Kimmy Baraoidan Carlos Palanca Award and National Book Award winner Ferdinand Pisigan Jarin and renowned comics artist Manuel “Manix” Abrera join forces in their latest work, Si Kaitlin at ang Game Machine (Kaitlin and the Game Machine). The children’s book was launched last February 23, 2015…
The Alternative brings together four stories and image collections from this year’s Lenten observance. We explore the country’s rich culture and tradition, a mix of Roman Catholicism and Pre-Hispanic beliefs, and their continuing relevance to today’s society. Dax Simbol documents the Magdarame, women mourners in Capas, Tarlac. Kimmy Baraoidan continues to follow the men of…
Photos by: Sonny Yabao Text by: Kimmy Baraoidan Is this real or just a dream? I thought when I saw these images of Sonny Yabao that he took during this year’s Lent. His photos always have a dreamlike quality to them. And most of the time these dreamlike images border on nightmares, which would haunt…
Text and photos by: Chris Quintana "Yeah, take me to the old church," I told the tricycle driver on the way to the fishing village of San Antonio in Bay, Laguna. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to see tourists there, I thought to myself, the village being a quiet fishing community, though it is…