2020 in Pictures: Mindanawons come to grips with COVID-19
When news started coming out of a virus spreading rapidly in China towards the end of last year, nobody predicted it would soon be...
PICTURES: Marawi 3 years later
A worker heads to a road reconstruction site in Marawi City on Saturday, October 17, 2020. Majority of the 27,000 families in the 250-hectare,...
Serving their communities
Barangay Health Emergency Response Teams in Cagayan de Oro City have been mobilized to help in the fight against COVID-19 as early as 29...
Roxas Night Market reopens
After six months of closure due to the COVID-19 community quarantines, the Roxas Night Market in Davao City reopened Saturday, 12 September 2020 with...
PICTURES: Plants in Miyam’s Garden
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 06 Sept) – I didn’t expect our local camera club (The Umbrella: Joint Photographic Society of Iligan City) to continue...
PHOTO ESSAY: The fifth Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro
The new Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro was installed on Friday, August 28, on the feast of St. Augustine, the city’s patron saint.
Archbishop Jose...
PHOTO ESSAY: Shielded
Commuters wear face shields over their masks while waiting for their ride along C.M. Recto Avenue in Cagayan de Oro on Monday, 17 August...
PICTURES: Shooting from Home: ‘Shapes & Patterns’
On their third monthly (June 2020) quarantine photo contest, the hobbyists of The Umbrella: Iligan’s Joint Photographers’ Society tackled yet another subject that can...
PICTURES: Shooting Food at Home: ‘Lutong Bahay’
For the hobbyists under The Umbrella: Iligan’s Joint Photographers’ Society, shooting at home during quarantine has sparked creativity. They first held a contest on...
PICTURES: Shooting Birds at Home
The long quarantine period in this time of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has brought untold sufferings, but it also sparked creativity among those who...
IN PICTURES: Desolate Davao City
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 April) -- By nightfall of Wednesday, April 15, as Davao City started another 12-hour curfew beginning 6 p.m., policemen...
Davao City under quarantine
Davao City has been placed under community quarantine effective Sunday, March 15, 2020, amid threats posed by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Although the city...
PICTURES: Keeping Bukidnon ASF-free
LOREGA, Kitaotao, Bukidnon (MindaNews / 12 Feb) -- Bukidnon, a landlocked province in mainland Mindanao, has been employing biosecurity measures for several decades now,...
Kuyamis Festival
Participants perform during the 7th Kuyamis Festival in Misamis Oriental on Wednesday, 8 January 2020. Fifteen of the province's 23 towns and Gingoog City...
PHOTO ESSAY: Talaandigs’ Panalawahig
SONGCO, Lantapan, Bukidnon (MindaNews / 14 October) -- Indigenous Peoples of Bukidnon hold rituals for various purposes. Requirements such as the number of chickens...
History in photographs by Rene B. Lumawag
Visit Rene Lumawag's website for more photos.
Marawi, before and after the siege
I visited Marawi City often long before the siege, and accumulated some photographs of the place over the years. Here are comparison pictures of...
IDPs in Lanao del Sur
The hunt for what the military calls remnants of the Islamic State-inspired Maute group in Lanao del Sur has displaced close to 2,000 families...
PHOTO ESSAY: Never Again
It has been a long journey for the Bangsamoro.
Before the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) was signed by government and the Moro Islamic...
PHOTO ESSAY: Celebration of Friendship
On 8 March 2012, representatives of various Lumad tribes and their Moro kin gathered in Songco in the municipality of Lantapan, Bukidnon to celebrate...
PHOTO ESSAY: Balloting inside MILF’s Camp Rajah Muda
During the height of skirmishes between government soldiers and Moro rebels since the 1970s, Camp Rajah Muda – the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s (MILF)...
PHOTO ESSAY: Peaceful plebiscite in Lanao del Norte
Despite the explosions that rocked three municipalities of Lanao del Norte the day before the February 6 plebiscite, voters still trooped to the polling...
PHOTOS: Bangsamoro Plebiscite in Lanao del Sur
Meranaos trooped to their polling precincts on Monday (21 January 2019) to cast their votes in the plebiscite for the ratification of the Organic...
PHOTOS: Bangsamoro Plebiscite: The Day Murad Votes
SIMUAY, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (MindaNews/ 22 January) -- Cheers greeted Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) as he...
PHOTOS: Cotabato City: Yes or No to Bangsamoro
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 19 January) -- Cotabato City voted against inclusion in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in 1989 and in...
‘Bakwit’ tailor speaks on mending the fabric of war-torn Marawi
The Siege
The five-month war in Marawi City started with a failed raid to capture the emir of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Southeast Asia,...
PHOTO ESSAY: The year that was in Marawi
The nation stood still afternoon of May 23, 2017 when social media was flooded with photographs and video clips of armed men clad in...
‘Kambisita’ sa Marawi: A photo essay
I joined my colleagues to Marawi City on Tuesday to cover the “Kambisita,” wherein displaced Meranaws were allowed to visit their homes in the...
Ground Zero, Marawi
The military opened portions of Marawi City’s Ground Zero on 25 October 2017 for journalists to see what it took to liberate the country’s...
Children of War
It's been over a month since fighting between government forces and the Islamic State-inspired Maute Group erupted in Marawi City. The conflict forced civilians...
Marawi Crisis: No End In Sight Yet
Fighting between government forces and the Islamic State-inspired Maute Group in Marawi City entered its 37th day on Wednesday (28 June 2017), and there...
Marawi City during happier times
Intense fighting between government soldiers and the Maute Group has left Marawi City in ruins. Up to what extent, we do not know as...
IN PICTURES: Aftermath: Butig, Lanao del Sur
Government soldiers take over the town proper of Butig, Lanao del Sur on Wednesday (December 1) after almost a week of fighting with the...
IN PICTURES | Rodrigo Roa Duterte: Through the Years
This set of photographs of seasoned photojournalist RENE B. LUMAWAG is just a fraction of his huge collection of pictures of Davao City Mayor...
Morning in Bloom
Located at the foothills of Mount Apo, Makilala town in North Cotabato is a known producer of tropical fruits such as durian, mangosteen, lanzones...
Through the haze
Haze from Indonesia’s forest fires has blanketed not only Indonsia, neighboring Malaysia and parts of Thailand, but also several provinces in Mindanao.
On the road...
Displaced (again) in Surigao del Sur
Killings and harassment attributed to a paramilitary group forced some 3,000 individuals to flee their homes in Barangay Diatagon in Lianga, Surigao del Sur...
Valencia City Flood
People living along Panlibatuhan Creek in Valencia City in Bukidnon were caught flat-footed when the creek swelled on August 4, 2015 and flooded their...
Bridge To Peace
In between corn fields in this part of Mamasapano in Maguindanao, is a muddy river that flows from east to west. The only structure that...
Photo Essay: Cagayan de Oro’s little ‘Pacman’ wannabes
Young ‘Pacman’ wannabes, some as young as 11, undergo extensive training in Cagayan de Oro City to form part of the city’s boxing team....
Ifugao-Talaandig Wedding
Jerry Tugatog and Dalisay Saway exchange vows in traditional wedding rites on 15 May 2014 in Barangay Songco, Lantapan, Bukidnon. Jerry is the son...
The men and women in Pikit gathering
They had suffered the most in times of war, fleeing to evacuation centers where they stayed for weeks, sometimes months. The town plaza in...
Celebration in Mendiola
Moro people in Manila rejoice at the signing on Thursday, 27 March 2014, of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro between the Philippine government...
New Bataan: A year after Pablo
Typhoon Pablo did not just change the landscape in New Bataan, Compostela Valley province on December 4, 2012. It also changed the lives of...
Flashback: Typhoon Pablo’s wrath
These pictures were taken in different parts of Mindanao from December 4 until the middle of the same month last year, after typhoon Pablo...
