noel alanguilan

i do not think i have much time to spare. i try to spend my days being with people dear to me and on things i enjoy doing. i cannot give any more time because i do not have any to give.

if by chance our paths will cross again please be kind. i will remember and afford myself the luxury of looking at past memories for a moment but i will be silent.

grandson & grandfather
23rd december 2009
mall of asia, pasay city

its a picture of my son and my father

yosi
slang for cigARETTE
san miguel, manila

i used to smoke. i stopped about 19 months ago. sometimes i miss it. sometimes i miss the slow drag, the deep breath after and the ensuing temporary haze of dizziness. its a deceptive vice. deathly simple. but time and money would be well spent on something else.

part of the lost rolls

alejo
san pablo city, laguna

the barkada series

part of the lost rolls

noel
san pablo city, laguna

the barkada series

part of the lost rolls

boots
san pablo city, laguna

the barkada series

part of the lost rolls

rad
san pablo city, laguna

the barkada series

part of the lost rolls

robbie
san pablo city, laguna
‘92 / ‘93

the barkada series

part of the lost rolls

nakapangingilabot
creepy
san pablo city, laguna

part of the lost rolls

a photo of my brother, gerry. i can’t remember if i asked him to look try to look serious or angry to lend some “drama” to the photo.

he said it was one of his old creepy stares.

i believe this was taken in san pablo city.

mirienda
snack
intramuros, manila

part of the lost rolls

the chamber
fort santiago, intramuros, manila

this was one of the chambers which used to store powder magazine but was later converted to prison cells for hundreds civilians and guerillas arrested during the second world war. their remains were found  after the battle of manila.

this photo is part of a folder of black and white film that i misplaced more than a decade ago. i recently found the film and had them digitized. i think a lot of the shots are worth showing off so i’m starting a series called the lost rolls where i will post most of the photos here. with the exception of my name and resizing the the scans to fit the blog, the photos were not altered in any way.