To see is to be. While this statement resonates to many as something that is poetic, this conception of Photography reveals something more substantial and perhaps existential about our experience of the world, especially when viewed through the lens of phenomenology.   

Tonight, we shall endeavor to view photography in a philosophical manner, and as our guest puts it, “inquire into how photography and photographs shape our contemporary human existence.”   

Thank you for joining us tonight for Episode 5 of the Marites Talks: Kwentuhan Sessions on Philippine Photography, entitled, Philosophy of Photography: A New Way of Seeing. We have Dr. Remmon Barbaza, Associate Professor and Former Chair of the Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, of the Ateneo De Manila University.