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Albert Sarmiento Photography, House No.152 Bungdonpa Village, Group5. Sangkat Slokram, Siem Reap City, Provinc, Siem Reap (2026)

10/07/2023

Playing with shadows and silhouettes. 🖤
📸 iPhone 13 pro RAW
🪄 Lightroom
📍Bohol Philippines

31/01/2021

Beautiful together.

07/01/2020

A day with history.

03/04/2019

“Ate, kuya, kahit konting barya lang po.”

P I L I P I N A S 🇵🇭

21/03/2019

M A L A Y S I A

Featuring the vibrant streets of M A L A Y S I A.

31/12/2018

"Hindi nagkakamali ang Diyos. So, I will prove to you that God doesn't make any mistake by putting me in your life."

One of the most heartfelt weddings I witnessed.
📸 for Imagine This Creatives

26/12/2018

“Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.”

Shot for Imagine This Creatives

28/11/2018

盲 Máng (Blind)

There are 7.7 billion people living in this planet. 8% of the world population live in extreme poverty, while the remaining 92% live in utter blindness.

Many people, myself included, live life blindly. A comfortable home, good food, warm affection, and quality education – these are things we often take for granted. Yet, these are the things that many children can only dream of having. We fail to see the many good things that are happening around us. We fail to realize how fortunate we are with our lives right now.

Being with the kids of Happyland last Sunday opened my eyes to a gleaming perspective. Seeing them laugh a lot and cry a little, tugged at my heartstrings in a way that has never happened before. While we complain about having many projects and difficult exams, children are being robbed of the opportunity to go to school because of financial problems. While we complain about our food not being delicious enough, many children are starving, eating leftover food from garbage cans, and dying from ill-fated diseases. While we complain about the fan or air-conditioning not working, many children are shivering as they sleep in the streets at night with nothing but cardboard boxes. While we complain about running out of batteries, having slow internet connection, or not being updated with the latest gadgets, many children are working barefoot with their soles full of callouses wearing clothes good as rags.

Behind the lens of my camera, this is what I saw. I saw 92% of the world complaining about the lavish things that are freely handed to them by God, by their parents, professors, and peers. While the remaining 8% would give anything for even just a quick escape from poverty – they would gleam with smiles and laughter for an afternoon spent with strangers to play with them, learn with them, and eat with them. What these children wouldn’t give just to experience the tiniest bit of normalcy in their lives? Nothing.

It started out as a simple requirement – to learn a song and sing it for the children. But the song of the children’s laughter and tears is what resonated the most. The learning from the epiphany of unspoken blindness is what struck the most. This, however a cliché message it may be, is a message that the world constantly needs to hear. Sometimes, it takes a look at someone else's life to know just how blessed you are...

Once was blind, but now I see.

28/11/2018

SMILES. LAUGHTER. TEARS. These things we were privileged to witness during our time with the kids of Happyland last Sunday.

From these captured photos lies a cliché message that the world constantly needs to hear:

While many children are robbed of the opportunity to go to school because of financial problems, most of us continue to live blindly - taking for granted the things around us. Sometimes, it takes a look at someone else's life to know just how blessed you are.

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