Bronze / 2023 / Portraiture / Culture

• Prize
  Bronze in Portraiture/Culture
• Photographer
  Siobhan Doran, United Kingdom
• Studio
  Siobhan Doran Photography
• Website
  http://www.siobhandoran.com

This photography series is part of a book project, Houses that Sugar Built: An Intimate Portrait of Philippine Ancestral Homes. My colleague, Gina Consing McAdam, and myself were granted access to photograph these historic mansions and speak to their owners and custodians. I was always intrigued to meet the person behind the architecture, and often surprised at the diversity of the present-day custodians – Ultimately, however, they all had something important in common: a love for their family and their ancestral house, and a particular affection for their past and fondness for their legacy.