In remote areas along the coastline of northern Mindanao Island of the Philippines, there are countless fishery villages and mining towns. Regardless of the sub-standard and humble living conditions, Filipinos always maintain their happy-go-lucky joyful lifestyle. Due to limited resources available, children need to bring their own chairs back and forth to local churches when attending Sunday service.
Kirby Ma is an award-winning passionate Chinese Canadian photographer based in Hong Kong, practicing street photography, portraits, landscape, cityscape, nature, and snap. With the work nature of previous career engagements in corporate business development, he stationed and traveled to different countries, namely North Korea, Egypt, the Philippines, Brazil, the USA, Canada, Europe, Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, etc., he developed a deep interest in its local culture and lifestyles. His vision is to share photography's joy and bring people happiness.