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  • Inside tomb in the public cemetery in Navotas Manila, the belongings of another family, to the cross of Christ serves to pose a photograph of family.
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  • By late afternoon in Navotas cemetery youth launch their kites in the wind enjoying the evening breeze at the very top of the graves.
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  • Man mourns the death of his wife in Navotas cemetery before burial in one of the drawers of cement.
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  • In Navotas, every play or run of the children who live there, is always surrounded by the background of graves and all seem alienated from the scenery around them.
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  • For the children living in Navotas cemetery in Manila, the  coexistence with graves and dead bodies is a normal thing. During the day, they try to take advantage of all the time to play mini snooker because the other kind is reserved for adults.
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  • Elderly woman and resident of Navotas cemetery wanders among the graves and praying for all those buried there.
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  • Seller of mangoes and chicken tries to cool off  with a mug of water protected by a canvas already aged by scorching sun. The graves stand on the background, as if they didn´t existed for him.
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  • A mother kissing her newborn daughter at the house where she lives in the cemetery.
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  • Jeffrey Bello, son of Philippine mother and an american father, lives in the cemetery for 16 years. <br />
Between the living and the dead, without work and without money, his life is stalled after the death of his mother and abandonment of his father - a former U.S. military. This photo reflects his state of mind - trapped in a life he did not choose or want for himself.
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  • Two brothers playing with the remains of deceased individuals -While the older brother decides to take a skull  and shows it with some pride as his brother puts his hands on the head, a sign of astonishment for not wanting to believe what his brother did.
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  • While family members mourn the death of their loved one, from under a scorching heat, one of the present films with ipad, the open coffin. The smell of decomposition already was felt.
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  • Basqueteball is the main sport in Philippines, within the cemetery children play in a cleaner area where family of the dead have some money to maintain graves with more dignity.
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  • While family members mourn the death of their loved one, from under a scorching heat, one of the present films with ipad, the open coffin. The smell of decomposition already was felt.
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  • Seller of famous BALUT - a delicacy that Filipinos are so fond - a fertilized duck egg in which the embryo is already partially formed, runs the cemetery playing your horn to draw customers.
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  • Portrait of the man who takes care of graves, posing proudly beside the graves who are under his care. By maintaining the graves clean and well, this man receives some money from the family of the deceased.
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  • Two sisters seek among the pile of garbage that covers part of the graves in search of material for recycling in exchange for a few pesos ,to buy some food.
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  • Philippines has a high mortality rate and in Manila area, 5 people die for each 1000, making funerals very common.<br />
A wife and brother of the deceased mourn next to grave, while family and friends take position between graves and give a last tribute to the person who died.
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  • A young boy , resident in  Olongapo Cemetery plays with his loose pigeon from the top of a tomb.
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  • Child observes from far away, the remains of dead bodies. Barefoot and naked, he has become accustomed to the scenario of death and unbearable smell.
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  • Boy jumps and plays from grave in grave with joy and tranquility, showing he knows every corner like nobody.
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