Phillipine's Night Crawlers (On Police Hunter Units)


THE WORK OF 'THE NIGHTCRAWLERS'
Photographs by Eloisa Lopez
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF "THE NIGHTCRAWLERS"
A woman cradles the lifeless body of her partner at a crime scene in Manila.


"When I drive around the streets of Manila, I don't remember by place, landmarks. I remember crime scenes," says photojournalist Raffy Lerma in the opening minutes of the documentary The Nightcrawlers. This evening, he arrives at a wake for a 15-year-old boy, shot twice in the head and once in the neck the night before. The boy's father and uncle stand grieving over the open casket as neighbors mill around. "Every day you cover these scenes. It chips away at your humanity. But it's more important to cover these killings than to do nothing at all."

Lerma is one of a small group of journalists, known by some as the Nightcrawlers of Manila, committed to documenting the drug war in the Philippines. Night after night, they rush to document the crime scenes before the authorities arrive to clean up the site. "In photojournalism I believe that you have a purpose ... of documenting history unfolding before your eyes," Lerma says. 
Nightcrawlers: Photographers in the Philippines
PHOTOGRAPH BY ELOISA LOPEZ

A pregnant Elizabeth Navarro, 29, cradles her one-year old baby during a wake for her five-year old son Francis and husband Domingo Mañosca who were killed in their home at Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines on December 11, 2016. The gunman, who aimed through the window, missed Mañosca with his first bullet, hitting Francis on his forehead.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

One Diary Note from a Legendary Writer TheikPan Mg Wa

Legendary Writer Theikpan Mg Wa’s diary during WWII, June 5, 1942 Eight (8) long years ago in 1934, one of my astrologer friend predicted that I could face deadly mishap prior to this birthday on 5 th June 1942. Now it was almost midnight, worries and concerns should be over soon (as he wrote in the diary) He was killed just after midnight during robbery attempt on June 6, 1942 TheikPan (Science) Mg Wa Bio TheitPan (Science) Maung Wa (ICS)  TheitPan Maung Wa (ICS) Theitpan Maung Wa’s real name was U Sein Tin. He was born in Mu Pon Nat Kyun Place, Mawlamyine. In 1920, he passed matriculation exam with Myanmar language distinction and Sanskrit language distinctions (honors) He moved on to Rangoon College (Science School) to learn further. In 1924, he passed Rangoon College Myanmar Honors Class with Tha Doe Aung Prize, Highest Prize for  Sanskrit language In 1927, he passed Myanmar Language Arts Honor’s Class with first class scores ...
Read more

Dr Tun Lwin Obituary on November 4, 2019

Obituary Acomplished International Meteorologist Dr Tun Lwin passed away yesterday November 4, 2019 6:57pm at Grand Hanthar Hospital in Yangon, Myanmar. He is a activist, volunteer, administrator, Informative intellectual, a teacher to all types of people in regards with weather conditions, weather forecasts and consequences of weather changes. He is a patriot for his country and hero for all levels of people for his lifetime public work. He was 72 Our all out condolences to Sayargyi's family
Read more

Our Earth From Different Planets

Image
What Earth looks like from other planets NASA released Cassini’s final image of Earth. By  Nicole Kiefert   |  Published: Friday, April 21, 2017 Cassini's last image of Earth, taken on April 12, 2017. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is on the final chapter of its almost 20-year-long mission, scheduled to end September 15, 2017. While Cassini was passing by Saturn on April 12, 2017, it took one last image of Earth from Saturn, 870 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) away.  In honor of that image, here are pictures of Earth from all the other planets so far.  Mercury On May 6, 2010 NASA’s Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft captured an image of the Earth and Moon while it was 114 million miles (183 million kilometers) from Earth.  NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington ...
Read more