‘Ang babae sa imburnal’

‘Ang babae sa imburnal’

The title roughly translates in English as “The woman in the manhole,” which sounds awkward. Imburnal means sewers, gutters, underground tunnels. “Woman from the gutters” sounds too harsh and has a negative undertone. The image of a woman—matted hair and all—captured on camera emerging from a manhole on a busy Makati street corner last week […]...Keep on reading: ‘Ang babae sa imburnal’