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Catching Up with Ryan Arbilo Text by Donna Künzler
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yan Arbilo is a photographic artist based in Paris, France. His work “Chicken Hands” gained him wide recognition and started his passion for capturing photos highlighting the plight and might of Filipinos in a diaspora. I had the pleasure of chatting with Ryan after almost a year since I missed attending the prestigious fashion show in Paris by a renowned Filipino designer which he covered. In our conversation, Ryan shares what he has been up to since he was last featured by Rawmags in 2018 and what we can expect from him in the future. It has been a few years since Rawmags featured you. Please tell us, what has happened since then? In 2019 up until early 2020, I was able to hold exhibits on my “Chicken Hands” and “Halo-halo” series in various places: at the Yuchengco Museum in the Philippines, at the Philippine Consulate General in Milan, at the Galerie Stéphane Mortier in Paris, Galerie Depardieu in Nice, and finally at the IESA Arts and Business School in Paris, curated by the well-known French gallerist Sylvana Lorenz. At the height of the pandemic, 7 other fellow artists and I came together to form Pinta Ayuda. Our main goal was to help our kaba-
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