Adventures of Isabel

UPDATE: You can view a slideshow of the pictures below. But you’ll still have to actually visit the set to read the text.Back in June, when I first started taking pictures of the rice crisis in Mindanao, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do with them. Since, for the moment, the [...]

This is a woman named Lita Midrano, who I spoke to this June, on the day rice prices broke 50 pesos per kilo in Mindanao. Midrano complained the subsidized rice provided by the National Food Authority for p18.50 a kilo was very poor quality, but she still waited in line for hours, because she [...]

This is a quick-and-dirty little slideshow of Lorena Navarro, at Bankerohan Market in Davao City. She used to grow corn, but the price of fertilizer got too high, and her earnings were to low, so like many farmers, she had to leave the provinces and come to the city to look for work.
“It’s become [...]

Women buying government subsidized rice at Bankerohan market in Davao City.

A laborer loads 50 kilo sacks of government subsidized rice at the National Food Authority warehouse in Davao City