Framing Kian

• Main Author: Devilles, Gary C
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: Extra Judicial Killings; Kian Lloyd de los Santos; President Duterte; Arts and Humanities; Creative Writing; Political Science
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/filipino-faculty-pubs/62; https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/vergstudglobasia.6.1.0023
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The late art critic John Berger said that photography always flirts with death because it stops the flow of life. And in Raffy Lerma’s photograph of Kian Lloyd Delos Santos lying in a coffin with a chick pecking at its glass pane, this flirtation becomes interminable, a constant play of sound and de...