#yangil

Contact Sheets

Last night I developed my films from the Yangil trip - two rolls of Orwo n74+ shot at box speed. My brother and I use a makeshift film scanner (consisting of a flatbed scanner, a piece of acrylic, and an iPad for backlighting) to make contact sheets. 

I’ve started to save these contact sheets, as a way to study my documenting style, and as a way to sort through my negatives in order to keep professional scanning costs down. Also, they look neat as hell. I’m happy with how a lot of these shots turned out. 

Guides 

We had multiple guides escorting us through the trek, one of which was the tribe’s chief, Chief Gabriel (The man on the left, in the third picture) . We asked some of the carabao drivers what their carabaos’ names were, and they said that the carabaos had no names. 

Daily Commute 

From the closest bayan, the Yangil tribe is a two hour trek by foot. While it is easier to travel by carabao, not everybody has this advantage. Due to the recent floods, the riverbanks are hard terrain to trek through - but the Yangil tribe perseveres. 

Yangil Village, San Felipe, Zambales.

Joined FlipTrip (now known as Tripkada) for the 2nd time around and it is not the usual travel/vacay trip. We wanted to know more about the place.