One of the things people enjoy in photography – it’s also among the most difficult – is portraiture, capturing someone’s life, where the person is at the moment, their history, all in one snapshot. In this episode, we focus on real people, people who live in a society where a premium is put on youth. those who don’t fit into that mold, the seniors and the really young ones, who are often left on the wayside. In this episode, Two Stops Over honors those whom society tends to forget, those whom it tends to abandon: our older and youngest citizens.
 
To celebrate our seniors, we visited an old folks home in Antipolo called Bahay Kanlungan, which is run by the Camillian sisters. This home for the aged also employs 11 people, which includes nurses, cooks, a secretary and utility. Its reason for existence, however, are the 21 abled and differently-abled female patients as well as 3 cerebral palsy patients.
 
Paco takes a portrait of 10 of them: Lolas Fe Saguinsin,  Edith Pacik, Flor Trevilla, Bianita Antojado, Gerzy Paronda, Belen Mendoza, Soledad Ampongan, Buding Juares, Bella Villa, and Fely Musngi, who happens to be 100-years-old.
 
To represent society’s youngest, the team headed out to Pasig, to an all-boy orphanage named Jesus Loves The Little Children Foundation. There, Paco takes portraits of 10 children: Lance Hermoso, Michael Celis, Anican Moreno, Norman Santos, Patrick Moreno, Benji Cabajar, Edmund Banse, Rafael Casingal, and John Ray and Christian Canillas, who happen to be brothers.
 
These are no ordinary portraits, however, for each contains a unique, special signature from the subject.