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The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

TCF Ep. 345 - Hannah Reyes Morales

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Hannah Reyes Morales is a Filipina photojournalist whose work focuses on individuals mired in complex situations created by inequality, poverty, and impunity. This includes photographing human trafficking at sea for The New York Times, reporting on war crimes against Cambodian women for Al Jazeera America, and documenting changing indigenous cultures in the Philippines for a grant from National Geographic. Her personal projects also follow a similar vein, and her latest work looks at the intimate and complex lives of the domestic workers employed by her own family in the Philippines. Her work has been published in print and online in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time (online), National Geographic (online), The Guardian and Lonely Planet, and has been exhibited in Manila, Telluride, Copenhagen, Aalborg, Nanning, Suwon, and Chiang Mai. She is represented by National Geographic Creative, and is currently a GroundTruth Climate Change Fellow. She is a member of Cambodia based Ruom, a collective of journalists covering South East Asia. She is a recipient of a SOPA award for excellence in digital reporting for her work in the Outlaw Ocean series for The New York Times. Hannah is is currently based in Manila and travels frequently around South East Asia.     Resources:   Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Click here to download for   Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button.

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This is EbodyNX and this is The Candid Frame.

0:54.8

When I came of age, the idea of journalism was still a noble pursuit.

1:00.6

Coming up in the age of Woodward and Bernstein, I thought that telling a story in words and pictures was not only an exciting career, but one in which you could provide an important public service.

1:13.0

Now, in an age where people rely more on Facebook posts than newspapers for their news,

1:18.0

it can feel a little disheartening to believe in the important role that the Fifth Estate plays

1:23.6

in a free democratic society.

1:26.4

But thankfully, there are young photographers, like Hannah Reyes Morales, who are demonstrating

1:31.4

that there are still those who see journalism not only as a worthwhile career, but also

1:37.0

unnecessary one.

1:38.5

The Philippine-born photographer has largely made Southeast Asia her beat, but her work

1:43.5

has taken her to different parts of the world.

1:46.3

Though still in her mid-20s and in the early stages of her career, she's already become a wonderful example of what today's 21st century photojournalist is evolving to be.

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