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LITRATO

GEARTAP | Art&The Body

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LOCAL ART WORKS ON ART & THE BODY FEATURING WORKS OF:

Jerry Tieng Sarah Black Maal Simajon Niccolo Cosme

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PAGE 1 CREATORS Get to know the Creators of Lit-Rato

PAGE 2 ABOUT LIT-RATO Learn about what Lit-Rato is all about

PAGE 3-10 LOCAL ARTIST FEATURES Get to know the Artists featured in LitRato. Most artists are Local Artists from the Philippines who feature works on Art and The Body

CREATORS OF LIT-RATO The creators of Lit-rato are students of the De La Salle University - Manila who are currently taking the subject course Art Appreciation otherwise known as "GEARTAP". The creators are group members of the Art and The Body team.

Nicole Sayoc

Angela Bautista

EDITOR IN CHIEF CREATIVE DIRECTOR

CONTENT CREATOR EDITOR

Lorraine Yu CONTENT CREATOR EDITOR

PAGE ONE | CREATORS

Wilbert Tan

Jasmin Lao

CONTENT CREATOR

CONTENT CREATOR

Lit-Rato The project entitled “Lit-Rato” is a digital photography portfolio revolving around the subject of

Art and The Body. The

creators of the project are students from the taking up the general course subject called Art Appreciation. The project title is inspired by the Filipino “Litrato” and when translated to english it means photo. The word Litrato was hyphenated to create the project title “Lit-rato” since the creators wanted to give emphasis on the “Lit” part which stands for literature.

Nicole Sayoc EDITOR IN CHIEF CREATIVE DIRECTOR

PAGE TWO | ABOUT LIT-RATO

BODY POSITIVITY PAGE THREE| JERRY TIENG

Wanting to redefine the meaning and look of beautiful and sexiness, Jerry Tieng, a local photographer took the initiative to start Project 100 PH that aims to empower women and advocate for body positivity through a fantastic and artistic approach of a nude shoot of 100 women from ages 18 above with different backgrounds, shape, size and lifestyles together with other local photographers.

Thoughts.

By Angela Bautista

Among the 100 photographs, these two spoke and resonated with me. Social media is filled with images of what a perfect body is like and society has been aggressively telling women like me that the body that I have can never be considered beautiful no matter how much I try to hide though clothes. It’s comforting to see artists use their platform to create a movement toward body positivity and advocate for women empowerment. In this day and age, we need to redefine the beauty standards that society has been telling us. Our human bodies go through many unexplainable things and it changes beyond our control. No one should feel compelled to succumb to the impossible standards set by the society.

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YOUR SELF

NOW, SHE IS

SARAH BLACK

In her 15th year in the photography industry, Sarah Black revelled by opening a fair, "Now, She Is". The trivial exhibit solemnized womanly profiles with relentless bare and nude snapshots. She was inclined towards portraying women upon a female's point of view, and wipe out any animalistic tension that is present from a manly look. To throw out peccability and pudency from the trials

of women getting a shot bare-naked, together with tearing out the malefaction and loss of face from an individual setting his or her eyes on undressed bodies, her aim was not to substantiate the female body, but to simulate and impersonate it as being delicate and elegant.

PAGE FIVE|SARAH BLACK

Thoughts.

By Lorraine R. Yu Among the photographs of Sarah Black, what struck me the most is the one in the previous page. Though I cannot verily speculate and express my sentiments for all males since I am undeniably a woman, still, in my observations at being aware with how there are nude photographic porfolios with bare bodies of women shot by males, there unmistakably is sexual constrictions. Sarah Black broke the walls of such mentality by capturing women in their bodies gently, resplendently, and undefeatedly, somehow communicating a notion of women empowerment to her photograph's audience.

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Maal Simbajon TATOO ARTIST As a tattoo artist, Maal Simbajon always saw beauty in the pain of getting tattoos. Aside from tattoos being a form of strong selfexpression, Simbajon believes that it is a form of healing. In which people could turn to tattoos to heal themselves and make themselves stronger despite going through troubles. The permanence of tattoos is also an important factor to consider and Simbajon particularly states that she would rather the customers think deeply about getting a tattoo than just rushing and regretting their decisions. Simbajon also wants to prove to people that women could also make large-scale tattoos.

Despite currently being a minimalist tattoo artist, Simbajon wants to expand her skillsets to fit her vision and goals as an artist.

FAMILY PORTRAINT BY MAAL SAMBAJON

PAGE SEVEN| MAAL SIMBAJON

TATOO ARTIST

Maal Simbajon

Thoughts.

By Wilbert Tan

The piece that I resonated with the most was the family portrait as a tattoo. As a person, I’m very family oriented and I see the value in maintain close ties with the people that matter. Seeing a tattoo artist integrate the very family portrait of a person into a tattoo is very refreshing and it is a step further from majority of the tattoo art that other people use.

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FREE

Photographer: Niccolo Cosme Niccolo Cosme is a visual artist and photographer that spreads awareness through his creativity. This particular project is called “ Free Love” , it is about the LGBTQ community. He released this during pride month in 2018. He believes that everyone should be loved and have the chance to love.

“In the face of discrimination and oppression, we march on. We blow our whistles for pride, freedom and solidarity with all.”

PAGE NINE| NICCOLO COSME

Thoughts.

By Jasmin Lao

Niccolo Cosme’s work stood out to me because of how passionate he is with his work. Having someone like him who stood up about them and being that till this day it is still a sensitive topic .Personally, I also have people close to me who are part of the LGBTQ community. I saw first hand of how they were suppressed and made fun of.

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