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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Grace Holliday

‘I’m sure this fisher had success the next day’: Philip Am Guay’s best phone picture

Fisher checking his bunsod for a catch
Bunsod, 2017, shot on Huawei P10. Photograph: Philip Am Guay

Philip Am Guay’s family home in Manjuyod in the Philippines is just a few metres from the beach where, one day in 2017, he found fisher Manong Ebrin checking his bunsod (fish corral) for a catch.

“Manong is a Filipino term, how we address an older man or a brother,” Guay explains. “I was an operations supervisor at a shopping mall in Cebu City during that time, staying in a boarding house. I would only go home to see my parents about five times a year, and the journey would take eight hours. When I did go, I would head straight to the beach.”

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