filipino photograph costs P1.9M at auction

[beach.bum]

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Filipino photographs snap P1.9M at auction
by James P. Ong
Philippine Daily Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines - A Filipino photographer based in Melbourne, Australia, set the record for the most expensive set of pictures sold at the recent Christie’s Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art auction in Hong Kong.

“The Passing of Light” by Emmanuel Santos, which comprises 38 black-and-white pictures measuring 26 x 26 inches, was sold for US$44,000 (P1.9 million).

It’s the highest on record for Philippine contemporary photography and Southeast Asian photography. They were a combination of first- and second-edition prints.

They were exhibited at Silverlens Gallery in Makati last September.

The work’s subject: angels common to the Torah, the Koran and the Bible. “There are 72 angels, both good and bad, and he has made photographs of 38 of them over the last 10 years,” says Isa Lorenzo, owner and curator of Silverlens Gallery.

Santos, born in 1957, grew up in Sagada, Mountain Province, and moved to Australia in the late ’70s where he established himself as a photographer of the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Melbourne.

In Manila, he was a photographer for the United Nations.

He is one of the foremost photographers of the Jewish Diaspora, and his work has featured in Jewish and Holocaust Museums worldwide.

Santos’ work is special because he has been able to document customs and traditions of the very private and little-known Hassidic community, such as a group celebrating the festival of Purim, where “the community celebrates with wild abandon—Santos filmed children dressed as clowns, as Father Christmas, and one boy even dressed as a Palestinian terrorist,” reported the Melbourne paper The Age in 2003.

“As you know, photography is huge as contemporary art elsewhere. And we are only in its infancy here in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, but we are going to get there,” says Lorenzo.

[giovanni]

walay sample sa picture?hehehe

[kinamutchara]

kani aie, sample ni xa......

[kinamutchara]

naa sad diay xa website, payter kaau!


emmanuel santos here <----------click

[wikitoy]

if he is a painter then pwerteng nindota sa iyang obra maestra.. pero mura'g unbelievable man kung photography ni. Hmmmn, maybe he has the power to see angels and let angels pose for his camera hahahaha....

[agoroy]

if he is a painter then pwerteng nindota sa iyang obra maestra.. pero mura'g unbelievable man kung photography ni. Hmmmn, maybe he has the power to see angels and let angels pose for his camera hahahaha....

photography man gihapon .. old-skol style.

manual ang masking.

[wikitoy]

photography man gihapon .. old-skol style.

manual ang masking.

kay bisag unsaon gud nako ug totok iyang pictures kay mura man gud ug painting hehehe....

[kinamutchara]

amazing jud kaau sa? nura xag paintin. payter kaau! pwerte ka mahal sa iya pics...... highest records sa southeast asia gud. wayuk

[Forgotten-Isle]

great job! fantastic shots.. amazing!

[blaire123]

photography bitaw ni pina surreal ang effect ani niya pag edit.....
naay usa ka pic nga na klaru ang pagka mask ky ang edges naa pay white gamay.....