Title: Monastic life
Richard Jacob N. Dy
Synopsis:
Old age has a way of changing people’s lives. In Cambodia, some women–some widowed or abandoned–choose to live as monastics as they age, freeing themselves from worldly desires as they play vital roles in the preservation and dissemination of Buddhist practices in a community.
In the heart of the Siem Reap town lies several quarters for aging nuns, where the photographer spent two mornings and three afternoons in his attempt to paint a poetry of a monastic life.
Bio:
Born in 1991, Richard Jacob N. Dy is a Manila-based freelancer. In his student days, he served as writer-photographer for Philippine Collegian, the official student paper of University of the Philippines-Diliman. Last year, he was one of 38 emerging Asian photographers invited to the Angkor Photo Workshop in Siem Reap, Cambodia. He recently finished a post-graduate diploma in photojournalism at the Ateneo de Manila University.
