IN PHOTOS: The Filipina beyond Maria Clara

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IN PHOTOS: The Filipina beyond Maria Clara

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Award-winning documentary photographer Rick Rocamora takes these photos of Filipinas over the years

MANILA, Philippines – It’s women’s month once more.

As we celebrate equality and women’s rights, we share the different faces of the Filipina, beyond the image of Maria Clara. 

Here are photos by award-winning documentary photographer Rick Rocamora through the years, showing the contrast of rising equality and opportunity with continuing discrimination, persecution, and poverty for women in the Philippines.

Rb and Marie Gay Pride Day, San Francisco, 2014

Repatration from Syria, Ninoy Aquino International Airport, 2015

Quiapo polling station, 2016

Tired obstetrician at Fabella Maternity Hospital, 2015

Duterte protest in Luneta, 2016

After-wedding selfie at Daraga, Albay, 2017

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