Viva (redux)

This post is slightly past its timeliness. But I did have an intention to post my visit to the "Panata" photo exhibition at the National Museum of Anthropology in time for the traslacion of the Black Nazarene of Quiapo, Manila last 09 January 2018. With only a smartphone for a camera, I couldn't have possibly gotten any good on-site coverage of the event, what with the tens of thousands devotees.

This year's traslacion Rappler reported an estimate of 280,000 devotees (as of 10:00 AM on the day). The Inquirer reported that the police stationed in Plaza Miranda estimated the crowd to have grown to four million (as of 5:00 pm on the day).

At the Panata exhibition, I was interested in finding smaller human interest stories captured within the frames of the enlarged crowd photography. I may not be able to do passable photography representative of the scale of this en masse devotion, but maybe someday, I could try to chance upon those smaller human interest stories occurring inside the grand context.