LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE
How do you deal with children who stare death in the face instead of rays of hope and life? How do you look them in the eye and tell them everything will be alright? How do you rid yourself of the guilt that they will never live the life you have enjoyed? That it will never be the same for them? Loyola’s images hit you like a ton of bricks. His subjects, pleading? questioning? beseeching? for answers that will never come. Bereft of color, it seems these children have been condemned to a life in black and white as Loyola manipulates these two colors in a very emotional way.
It is a treat for the layman with the message it sends and an indulgence to the photo enthusiast who can discern a beautifully crafted black and white image. Probably the most poignant image is of a child, with thinning hair and mask looking out a window. A million stories told by this image. Is the child thinking of her past; or future that will never be, or the present that is so fleeting. It forces one to be empathetic and sympathetic and realize life’s inequity. Edwin’s images tell stories that can only be conjured, but never realized. A deeper perspective? How do we gain this? When one’s life is threatened that we gain a deeper understanding of life?
When faced with life’s uncertainty do we stop and think what this is all about? Indeed the magic of Loyola’s images is that they force us to think about our own humanity. But this is achieved only by his mastery in framing, composition, texture, and all the other visible elements in his images that gives us a deeper perspective to life’s invisible dogmas. - Text by: Willy Marbella
AWARDS:
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INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS - PHILIPPINES
People Photographer of the Year Category Winner
Gold - Children
Silver - General News
