‘I’m sure this fisher had success the next day’: Philip Am Guay’s best phone picture

The Filipino photographer on presenting the struggles faced by the people in his community

Philip Am Guay's family home in Manjuyod in the Philippines is just a few metres from the beach where, one day in 2017, he found fisher Manong Ebrin checking his bunsod (fish corral) for a catch.

Manong is a Filipino term, how we address an older man or a brother," Guay explains. I was an operations supervisor at a shopping mall in Cebu City during that time, staying in a boarding house. I would only go home to see my parents about five times a year, and the journey would take eight hours. When I did go, I would head straight to the beach."