Posts Tagged ‘rick rocamora

DEEMED as an act to correct a "historic wrong," the $787-billion economic stimulus package recently approved by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama comes with $198 million in lump-sum benefits to surviving Filipino...

January 21, 2009 · Posted in: Image Galleries, In the News

Hopeful America

OVER a million Americans witnessed the historic January 20 inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th and first African-American president of the United States. Filipino social documentary photographer Rick Rocamora, a regular PCIJ contributor,...

November 8, 2008 · Posted in: Cross Border, Image Galleries, In the News

Woman power

AFRICAN-American, Latino and youth votes have been largely credited for helping propel Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States. Women voters, however, also figured prominently in Obama's victory as 56 percent of women who voted in the November...

September 17, 2008 · Posted in: Image Galleries

Forced isolation

EXPECT the Muslim population in Metro Manila to swell every time the Bangsamoro conflict escalates down south. To escape the brutalities of war in Mindanao, many Muslims particularly flock to Quiapo, the heart of downtown Manila, where a sizable Muslim...

September 5, 2008 · Posted in: Image Galleries

Muslim Filipinos amid war

U.S.-based Filipino social documentary photographer Rick Rocamora contributes this series of photographs from his Balikbayan Visual Diary, a collection of photo essays and picture stories that he made while in the Philippines on assignment for U.S....