Children

3 min

Fabel

This image of Fabel Pineda is the third one I have painted. The first two were based on photos that accompanied most news articles about...

3 min

Aldrinne

Vitas Meat Slaughterhouse stands along a street in the Tondo neighbourhood that shares it name, a housing project that was originally...

2 min

Nercy

Nercy's life was peppered with contradictions. You can see this in her social media posts, where she paired vaguely romantic statements...

2 min

Francis

In Metro Manila, the poor are treated the same way as the heaps of rubbish they're forced to share space with, discarded and strewn...

1 min

Althea

If you recently heard about the youngest victim of the drug war in the Philippines, three-year-old Myca, please let me remind you that...

2 min

Danica

It would be too easy to simply describe the difficult life 5-year-old Danica had. She lived in a tiny, cramped home with too many small...

2 min

Bladen

There's a narrative that the police have constantly used to justify the mounting number of victims in the so-called war on drugs in the...

Portraits and Stories

Those We Lost is a collection of portraits and stories of the victims of the so-called drug war in the Philippines. This site is a memorial to the murdered and a call to action for the rest of us.