Signs of the times

A closer look at Veejay Villafranca’s Signos A dead pig lies under the hood of an old passenger jeepney, its light-colored flesh begrimed with mud and dirt. On the hood of the jeepney are a pair of leather shoes, a couple of notebooks, and two little stuffed animals laid out to dry. A framed family…

Water crisis revealed in Gigie Cruz’s Damned

Text by Kimmy Baraoidan Photos by Chris Quintana and Kimmy Baraoidan A Tibetan landscape in the tropics. A post-apocalyptic desert wasteland. A dead tree's leafless branches reaching out to the sky, as if in a last desperate attempt to stay alive. The last thing that these would conjure up is a dam. But this is the reality…

Smartphone images on metal in “IRONIC”

Text by: Chris Quintana  Inside the white room, framed square iron sheets hang, bearing in tangible perpetuity the artist's attempt to make sense of the world—faces and shapes from the shadows inked in black surface from the bare white void. Photographer Veejay Villafranca opened his latest exhibition "IRONIC" on July 15, 2015 at Pineapple Lab,…