Reality Effect
by Sonia Fernandez

Sonia's project is a new media version of a gallery exhibition that she collaborated on with her sister, in which photos from the Philippines and text depicting both its beauty and its poverty were juxtaposed. According to Sonia, "the main thrust of this project was to depict the irony of the representations of the Third World, seen as a paradise because of its beauty and potential for development, despite the obvious squalor and poverty that exist in those places."

(Note: After you launch the project, enter the gallery, and select a pair of photographs. Moving your mouse to the dark areas above and below the pairs of photographs reveals the text.)