Maryknoll Ecological Sanctuary

By Erlyn Ruth Alcantara

AN EXHIBITION of aerials, panoramic views and re-photography, BAGUIO Then/Now opens at The Sanctuary Gallery, Maryknoll on August 27, 2009 at 4 p.m. and will run until December 31, 2009.

The show features early images of Baguio and re-photography by 12 Baguio photographers.

Produced by the Baguio Benguet Studies, the Maryknoll Ecological Sanctuary is hosting this exhibition in celebration of the Baguio centennial. This will include early photographs of the Maryknoll convent and school from the Maryknoll Archives in New York.

Exhibit curator is Erlyn Ruth Alcantara, curator of The Sanctuary Gallery from 1999-2003.

Baguio Then/Now was first shown in December 2007 to February 2008 at The Gallery, SM City Baguio. It was shown at the Galerya Kordilyera, University of the Philippines Baguio during the Baguio Centennial Conference, March 6-7, 2009.

Featured in the exhibition are early Baguio photographs from the Baguio Benguet Studies retrieved from various archival sources and private collections.

Re-photography is by Robbie Casas, Elicon Consul, Caesar Paul Garcia, JT Gonzales, Rudy Furuya, Tommy Hafalla, Ric Maniquis, Julius Mendoza, Mark Perez, Rudi Tabora, Ompong Tan, and Boy Yñiguez.

Baguio Then/Now is the first exhibition in Baguio that focuses entirely on re-photography.

A term coined for its use in environmental studies, re-photography uses photographs from an earlier period as reference to record present-day images from an approximate same or similar angle.

The photographs document change and loss and reflect how we engage our environment or push our resources to the limits. Here, photographers play that important task of “turning the lens into a mirror.”

Together, these photographs present a documentation of the city’s cultural and physical landscape.

For inquiries, write to the exhibit curator, erlynruth@gmail.com or Maryknoll mesbaguio@gmail.com.

Original articel published in Sun.Star
http://sunstar.com.