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Home for Christmas: Port Barton, Kalinga, Puerto Princesa, and Sagada
This entry was written by Jon Morales. I met him when I photographed the Volcanoes (our national rugby team) in 2011. He's lived in the Philippines for 3 years. Before moving here, he lived in New...
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On Finding and Keeping
I sometimes ask why I do this to myself--why I put up with having to create makeshift homes for the night, and with missing my friends, and with having to write love notes on hotel paper in order to...
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Little Girl, Big World: The Italian Riviera, Rome in a Day, and Tuscany Photo...
Tuscany will forever be one of my favorite parts of the world. It was just so... Yellow. I felt like everything about this part of my trip was perfect--even the part where I got pickpocketed and had to...
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Venezia Photo Diary
Venice. A giant maze of bridges, tiny streets, and water. I got there in time for the Venice marathon, and, it was raining--no, it was flooding. My sneakers started leaking (and I felt a little...
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Live Hard, Play Rugby, Die Ugly: Manila 10s Photo Diary
Spent this weekend cheering for the Nomads at my first Manila 10s. It's an international rugby festival. I've seen a music festival, flower and food festivals, a chocolate festival, and loads of...
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The Island: Coron Holy Week Photo Diary
4 weeks in Manila. I was starting to get restless and antsy. This thing that people call wanderlust is a terrible feeling. Finally back to seeing new things--the same places, but in different ways.Back...
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Interview with Epiclist
From the Epiclist Tumblr:Just 22 years old, Hannah Reyes is living her Travel Photographer dream. In our interview she speaks about her dreams, her fears and her dancing story with “Where the hell is...
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La Ville Lumiere - Paris Photo Diary
I went to Paris because Audrey Hepburn said it was always a good idea.I almost missed my train from Geneva, because there was a party the night before, and my train departed at 6am. I drifted off to...
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Fete de la Musique a Manille
It was Fete de la Musique over the weekend. It was a brilliant night, filled with talented people having fun whilst making other people have fun. We ran in circles around the city. Chasing bands,...
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A Search for Witches, and other Magical Things: Siquijor Photo Diary
I learned just recently that when you go on a witch-hunt, you find more than just witches.I first suspected that this woman was one, because of the storm clouds that followed her. I went down the bike...
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The City of Angels: Bangkok Photo Diary
I'm back from Thailand, and to tell you the truth I was frightened to go there. I hate traveling alone, I hate eating by myself, and though I know I can enjoy my own company, I prefer sharing things...
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Hello, Yellow : Clinique and Yellow Adventures
Happy news! Clinique Philippines approached me to partner up with them to share with you some of my most yellow moments. I loved the idea, and of course I'm excited to be a part of it! I love sharing...
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The Circus, The Stones, The Skeletons: Siem Reap Photo Diary
Photos by Hannah Reyes, Words by Jon MoralesThe boy is flying. He rises five, ten, fifteen meters in the air, vaulted, scraping the roof, falling, flying, tumbling in turmoil then caught by the...
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On Being Alone
I'm not as good with words as you are but this is my best attempt at a love letter. I was very lonely and my camera helped me make sense of it.Copenhagen, Aalborg, Berlin 2013“Are you upset little...
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The Potters of Vigan
When I was a little girl, I would play with clay pots, put water and leaves and flowers in them, lay them over giant roots, and pretend I was brewing something magical. Tea that could, perhaps, take me...
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In Memoriam
I went to the Killing Fields and to S21 last week.I don't know how to write about it...I stood by this tree where they beat babies against and threw them in a pit with their frightened mothers. When...
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A March of Monks
I spent the last two days in a sea of orange, walking under the sun with Cambodian monks, and my camera. We started at sunrise in the pagoda, had breakfast, and continued on to the messy roads of Phnom...
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On Pilgrims and Passing
Say hi to beautiful Mother Ganga, my monk friend tells me.Will you see dead bodies floating, my real life friend asks.Varanasi is one of the oldest living cities in the world. The holy city within...
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Rural Rajasthan
I would dream about India. A few years back, I dreamed of the Taj Mahal, and I woke up with goosebumps. In real life, we never saw the Taj Mahal. Perhaps that is best, maybe it's for the next time....
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Brand New Truths
I've been meaning to tell you many things, but it's often easier to say in photographs. Words are strange things, and sometimes they talk too much. But I will try.I'm learning to take things slow....
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To the Gates of Jerusalem
'We are in the walls of a city that has never known peace,' the priest says. I walked with Jon from the Mount of Olives to Gethsemane to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday yesterday. It felt as if we just walked...
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Welcome to Palestine: A Peep Inside the West Bank
Between Israel and Palestine is a large grey Wall. Like the walls I read about in books as a young girl. I don't think the Israel-Palestine conflict became real to me until I saw it--8 meters high...
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From Tel Aviv With Love
Have love, will travel. Streets, food, wine, and a lot of catching up after what felt like forever! It was lovely. I am grateful.A few personal photographs from Tel Aviv, 2014.
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Touchdown Italy: Lost in Milan
'Oh dear. Where am I going to sleep tonight???' First thoughts when I landed in Milan. I got there at around 6pm with absolutely no plans. All I had was an address of Piero Rotta, a youth hostel that I...
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Happy Scar
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” -Chuck PalahniukOn the last few days of 2012, I went...
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