{"id":2164,"date":"2023-08-14T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2023-09-02T23:54:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:54:22","slug":"when-the-waves-are-gone-by-christian-babista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/?p=2164","title":{"rendered":"When the Waves Are Gone by Christian BABISTA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:37% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PBD-23-059-When-the-Waves-are-Gone-2-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2166 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PBD-23-059-When-the-Waves-are-Gone-2-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PBD-23-059-When-the-Waves-are-Gone-2-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PBD-23-059-When-the-Waves-are-Gone-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PBD-23-059-When-the-Waves-are-Gone-2-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PBD-23-059-When-the-Waves-are-Gone-2-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/hkphotobookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PBD-23-059-When-the-Waves-are-Gone-2-scaled.jpg 1706w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p style=\"font-size:55px\"><strong>When the Waves Are Gone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:35px\">by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:35px\">Christian BABISTA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>from Philippines<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:30px\"><strong>About the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-background-color has-background has-medium-font-size\">It\u2019s difficult to see the life that departed family members had beyond the stories and family photos that surround them. My own father had to leave my family to provide for us, just as his own father did as a seaman\u2014their own unique experiences obscured by distance and time to those that love them. And yet, in some odd twist of fate, I discovered that my own grandfather had a penchant capturing life\u2026his life\u2026in ways that I never imagined.<br><br>Through his eyes, and now mine, this book\u2019s intro reads:<br><br>\u201cFor the waves that continue to ebb and flow.<br>To remember the time that has passed,<br>Telling ourselves to forget<br>The beautiful and the bad of what has happened.<br>I realized how life is a voyage through the ocean. It is a continuous crashing of waves, and regardless of the journey, we all end up in the shores.<br><br>\u2018In this type of job, your other foot will always be left in the sea.\u2019<br><br>My grandfather said these lines to me when I was a kid.<br>And since then I have always wondered what they meant.<br><br>As I grew older I slowly realized that when you set sail, there is always a risk of drowning and never coming back. You never know what\u2019s going to happen. Like waves, you never know if you will be able to go back to your family or you will end up swallowed by the ocean.<br><br>I am using my grandfather\u2019s photos to reconstruct his journey and to find closure to the questions he left unanswered when I was a kid.<br><br>At the same time, new, deeper questions began to form as I sifted through his photos.<br><br>What is it like to be someone whose other foot will always be left in the sea?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2023 \u9999\u6e2f\u651d\u5f71\u66f8\u6a23\u672c\u66f8\u734e HK PHOTOBOOK DUMMY AWARD\uff5cWhen the Waves Are Gone\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ecO3HH04wgs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Waves Are Gone by Christian BABISTA from Philippines About the Book It\u2019s difficult to see the life that departed family members had beyond the stories and family photos that surround them. 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