Veteran photojournalist Bullit Marquez shares with VERA Files images he has captured about happenings that matter to the Filipino people.
Feature
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Balikatan 2024 goes to the sand dunes of Laoag City
This year’s joint exercise known as BK39-2024 involves about 5,000 Philippine soldiers and some 11,000 US military personnel that would enhance both countries’ interoperability response to outside forces.
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The feast of Sto. Niño 2024
The feast of Santo Niño, celebrated every third Sunday of January, is a colorful celebration of faith that dates back five centuries ago. These photos and videos were taken by Bullit Marquez at Sto Niño Church in Tondo, Manila.
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Traslacion 2024: A spectacular display of Filipinos’ faith and piety
Millions joined this year’s mass procession, the first after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Free at last!
After seven long years in detention for what she insists as trumped -up drug charges, former Sen. Leila de Lima walked out of her detention cell at the Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Crame at about 7 p.m. Nov. 13.
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Grief, fear and outrage over brazen murder of radio broadcaster
Jumalon is the 199th journalist killed since the restoration of democracy in the country in 1986 and the fourth under the 15-month old government of President Marcos.
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Prayers, candles and flowers for the departed
Many tried to beat the traffic by visiting their dead earlier or after Nov. 1.
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2023 barangay and SK elections ‘generally peaceful’- Comelec
Monday’s polls, the result of which, according to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is “crucial” to national politicians, was the first since 2018.