Philippines: Mindanao's Frustrated Peace
Launched April 16, 2007
Photojournalist Ryan Anson returns to Mindanao, southern Philippines to examine the pitfalls and successes of the peace process with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). His photographs also document how violent clan-based politics as well as the government's ongoing counterinsurgency campaign against the al-Qaeda linked Abu Sayyaf Group affect the lives of ordinary Mindanaon Muslims in the central Mindanao and Sulu regions.
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Ryan Anson is a freelance photojournalist currently based in San Francisco. Although many of his pictures are about social, political and religious issues in the Philippines, Anson has worked in 15...
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October 1, 2009
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September 10, 2007 /
Untold Stories
Pulitzer Center Staff
September 9, 2007 /
The San Francisco Chronicle
Isabela City is not Baghdad. Roadside bombs don't rip through the floors of humvees, nor do masked insurgents take pot shots at Kevlar-vested soldiers from bullet-riddled buildings.
September 9, 2007 /
The San Francisco Chronicle
After weeks of vote counting, sporadic bombings and allegations of election fraud, the insurgency-racked island of Basilan in the southern Philippines finally has a new congressman.
Two of Ryan Anson's photos were featured in Newsweek's August 20, 2007 edition.
May 25, 2007 /
Frontline/World
Ryan Anson talks with FRONTLINE/World's Mimi Chakarova about what drew him to live in the Philippines in early 2000 and why the Islamic separatist struggle in the south of the country and in southe
May 25, 2007 /
KCBS
Ryan Anson interviewed on the insurgency in Mindanao on KCBS.
September 9, 2007 /
The San Francisco Chronicle
Isabela City is not Baghdad. Roadside bombs don't rip through the floors of humvees, nor do masked insurgents take pot shots at Kevlar-vested soldiers from bullet-riddled buildings.
September 9, 2007 /
The San Francisco Chronicle
After weeks of vote counting, sporadic bombings and allegations of election fraud, the insurgency-racked island of Basilan in the southern Philippines finally has a new congressman.
May 25, 2007 /
Frontline/World
Ryan Anson talks with FRONTLINE/World's Mimi Chakarova about what drew him to live in the Philippines in early 2000 and why the Islamic separatist struggle in the south of the country and in southe
These photographs were taken by Ryan Anson on a previous trip to Mindanao, prior to his Pulitzer Center reporting project in 2007.
Jolo is a volcanic island in the southwest Philippines. It has a population of approximately 300,000 people.
May 25, 2007 /
KCBS
Ryan Anson interviewed on the insurgency in Mindanao on KCBS.