Black And White Life In Philippines By Justin James Wright

Justin James Wright was born in England in 1966. After graduating college he gained significant experience with construction projects and held management roles in a variety of major prestigious projects in England. In 1994 he relocated to South East Asia and managed a number of large infrastructural engineering/construction projects in Hong Kong, Indonesia and in the Philippines.
Justin has been living and working in the Philippines since 1998, engaged by an international construction company responsible for delivering some very complex infrastructure projects.
Throughout his life Justin has been passionate about photography, particularly fine art photography. In 2006 Justin became a semi-professional photographer and focused his attention on capturing images of "street life" in the communities close to where he worked and lived. This built a passion to shoot scenes of people and communities to show "typical life" in the backstreets of developing countries , in particular, in the Philippines. Rather than dwell on impoverished scenes, Justin’s aim is to capture the “resilience and strong emotional spirit” of people who live in challenging and difficult environments where regular employment and income is often "hand to mouth".