Tag: James Chance

  • POYi Emerging Vision Recipient Brings Poverty To Life In Cemetery

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    The final resting place of Filipino presidents and celebrities, some 80 funerals take place at Manila’s North Cemetery each day. Today the cemetery is also home to more than 2,000 of the city’s poorest families. In order to bring the story of the breathing citizens of North Cemetery to life, James Chance, the 2010 recipient of Pictures of the Year International’s Emerging Vision Incentive, will spend the next year photographing the unique community.

    Link: POYi Emerging Vision Recipient Brings Poverty To Life In Cemetery

  • james chance – the dead at burn magazine

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    In the middle of the bustling Philippine city of Manila, home to almost 11 million people, lies the North Cemetery. Founded in 1904, it is the final resting place for several Filipino Presidents, celebrities, and hundreds of thousands of the city’s Catholic dead. However, since the 1960’s a new, living population has grown.  In this surreal environment, people have formed a functioning society that is literally built on tombs. A community of approximately 3,000 people currently live and work within in the North Cemetery’s walls.

    Check it out here.