Daily routine

7.00 a.m. breakfast at hotel restaurant

8.00 a.m. departure to destination

• (Transport, photos and walk until 12.30)

12.30 a.m., lunch

14.00, return to the hotel

• (transport, photos and walk until 18.30)

18.00 Hotel

19.00 Editing, selection and critique of photos

21.00 Dinner, relax

1. Day One

We start our workshop at 7.00 am in the premier fish center of the Philippines and one of the largest in Asia, Navotas Fish Port, we will attend the fish market, its trading and hustle (we have a special permission)

12.00 p.m - 1.00 p.m Lunch

We will walk 2 kilometres while photographing Navotas streets until our destination, Navotas Public Cemetery where we will photograph and talk to the people/families who live there in (we have been requested a special permission and pay a fee aimed to those families)

18.00 hrs, back to hotel, selection, edition and photography critic

21.00, dinner, beer

Day 2. Smokey Mountain

8.00-17.00hrs (for health and hygiene reasons we will take our food from outside)

Smokey Mountain is the largest dumpsite the poorest of the poor are making their livelihood by picking up a 20 mts high garbage where the residues have been accumulated for the last 50 years, most of the people working there are under 20 years old who scratch out in order to find something for recycling

(we have been requested a special permission and pay a fee aimed to those families)

A Filipino guide is provided

Interviews to the people are allowed, documentary and portraits photos

It is a must a full length pants, insects repellent, gumboots

18.00 hrs, back to hotel, selection, edition and photography critic

21.00, dinner, beer

Below map and route

Day 3. Baseco Beach // Baseco

Baseco Beachthese is classified among the most polluted maritime areas in the world, near 200.000 people live around the beach in irregular settlements, Nowadays NGOs, school students, voluntaries... are cleaning Baseco Beach but still can be seen plastics, junks and all type of toxic materials all around it

From 8.00 to 17.00, we will have a lunch in one of the street food shop in Baseco Town

18.00 hrs, back to hotel, selection, edition and photography critic

21.00, dinner, beer

Below map and route

Day 4. Binondo

8.00 -17.00 hrs

Binondo s a district in Manila and is referred to as the city's Chinatown and is the world's oldest Chinatown

We will visit and photograph all around it, San Lorenzo Church, riverside...

18.00 hrs, back to hotel, selection, edition and photography critic

21.00, dinner, beer

Below map and route

Day 5. Pasay City

8.00 - 17.00 hrs

Cock fighting farms

Pasay streets around public cemeteries

Pasay Train station

Shanty houses in riverside

18.00 hrs, back to hotel, selection, edition and photography critic

21.00, dinner, beer

Below map and route

Day 6. Delta of Pasig River

Thanks to a good work Pasig river is nowadays cleaner than years ago, for years, this river, was seen as a huge dump for over 13 millions of people and in 1990 it was declared biologically dead

We will walk around its riverside and photograph its shanty houses settled there, after lunch we will tour inside Barangay Town to photograph its neighbourhood

18.00 hrs, back to hotel, selection, edition and photography critic

21.00, dinner, beer

Below map and route

Day 7. Manila Streets and Cock-fighting

PLEASE DONT JUDGE, WE ARE AGAINST ALL THE ANIMAL CRUELTY, WE ARE GOING TO DOCUMENT AND TAKING PHOTOS OF MANILA PEOPLE

11.00 to 17

Manila Streets

18.00 to 20.00 Cock fighting at San Juan Coliseum

To the Filipinos, cock fighting is more than just entertainment.

Back to hotel, dinner, critic about the trip, photos, Manila, going out

If you want to have further information about this workshop please don't hesitate to send an email to info@miguelitor.net