The slain man in her arms was her partner, Michael Siaron, a pedicab driver suspected of being a drug addict. Foreign journalists wrote how it captured the terror of Duterte’s war and the sudden rise in extrajudicial killings. The dead remain unburied, resisting the closure of mourning and haunting the “discursive graveyard.”In surveying the mass of photojournalistic images of Duterte’s murderous drug war, Rafael returns again to these themes of trauma, mourning, haunting. Yet, what Rafael sees in these images, and the work of photographers are profound acts of re-humanization and memorialization. There is also one more thing Rafael sees.

Source: Manila Times June 04, 2018 16:45 UTC