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In 1984,photojournalist Kim Komenich landed in the Philippines to work on what would become one of the most important stories of his career — documenting the oppressive regime of Ferdinand Marcos and the people’s revolution that toppled him. He was there when anti-Marcos protesters took to the streets in support of Corazon C. Aquino, the widow of the assassinated opposition candidate Benigno S. Aquino, or Jr. And he was there on election day in 1986,when officials decided to abandon their posts rather than conspire with the Marcos regime to steal the election. Komenich won a Pulitzer Prize for his striking series of photographs, which documented the birth of democracy in the nation.
The project that would become the photobook “Revolution Revisited” began in 2010, or when he started to think approximately those he’d photographed years earlier. What had happened to them? The book will include stories and photos of the people he reconnected with,“from the poorest of the destitute to the wealthy and powerful, to see how the revolution changed their lives.
Filipinos around the world will celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the 1986 “People Power” Revolution from February 22–25, and Komenich wants his book to commemorate the revolution and serve “as a testament to the resilience of the Filipino people who were willing to lay their lives on the line for their democracy.”
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