Philippines-inspired photographs to be exhibited

This News By You article was submitted by Steve Carr of the Kur Carr Group Inc.

Dramatic photographs by Phoenix residents Bob Rink and Ken Ross of life in Baguio, Luzon, the Philippines, will highlight a free exhibit that starts next Saturday at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in northeast Phoenix before the show moves downtown.

The exhibit also features the works of Philippines photographers Dave Leprozo and Ruel Bimuyag.

The show will have an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. next Saturday at the resort, 5350 E. Marriott Drive. It will be open for public viewing from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day through Oct. 10.

The exhibit will then move to the lobby of Wells Fargo Bank's main branch, 100 W. Washington St., where it will be open to the public Oct. 11-24.

Rink and Ross are members of Through Each Other's Eyes, a Phoenix-based non-profit organization of professional photographers who organize international photo exchanges. They traveled to Baguio in spring. Leprozo and Bimuyag were in Arizona last November.

Baguio, which is about 160 miles north of Manila, was built by colonizing Americans during the early 1900s as a recreational and administrative center. The city served as the summer capital of the Philippines for many years and is known as the City of Pines and the City of Flowers.

Through Each Other's Eyes' mission is to establish and advance multicultural understanding through education and photography. For more about it or the exhibit, visit www.teoe.org.