PHOTOESSAY: Buried in debt only to have their loved ones get a burial

Abstract

The photoessay Healing The Wounds From the Drug War was the trail of people’s lives that have been disrupted by this brutal campaign in the Philippines. It was about what happens to those people left behind after the killings. Some who survive end up in decrepit jails. The families of the dead, mostly from the poor who get by in hand-to-mouth existence, end up buried in debt only to have their loved ones get a burial. But it also a story of hope for those given a new lease of life by organisations willing to assist in the rehabilitation of drug addicts.

Keywords

• Duterte's war on drugs
• extrajudicial killings
• photojournalism
• reality
• rehabilitation
• visual language