USC exhibit highlights People Power

A PHOTO exhibit of thirty black-and-white images and a video documentary of historic episodes within the Martial Law period and President Corazon Aquino’s administration underscored the silver anniversary celebration of the first People Power Revolution in the Philippines.

The photo exhibit, dubbed “Revolution revisited,” kicked off on Nov. 23 at the museum lobby of A. Dingman building, USC main campus.

Kenneth Esguerra, senior curator of Ayala Museum, a Makati-based organization that helps promote and teach Filipino arts and culture since 1974, organized the event along with the USC Museum headed by Marilou Samson.

Esguerra said the photo documentaries would allow the youth to appreciate democracy as they presented the major highlights of the government and politics since 1972 to 1986.

He also said the exhibit includes photography works of Kim Komenich, an American photojournalist whose masterpiece of the 1986 Edsa Revolution made him notch a Pulitzer award for spot photography.

The exhibit, scheduled to last until next month, was also displayed in universities in Manila, Bacolod, Iloilo and Davao.

In Cebu, USC was chosen to host the exhibit and film showing activities.

The occasion is in cooperation with the Ninoy and Cory Aquino Foundation, Canon, Image Prograf and EOS Digital.

Esguerra is also set to speak before a group of political science students about the importance of remembering the revolution and its impacts on modern-day government. CONTRIBUTOR JOHN destacamento