Images by Charlie Saceda (Lightstalkers) http://www.lightstalkers.org/charlie_saceda "On a weekend, while I was inside our school in my hometown, I heard the news that a bomb exploded in a nearby movie house. I rushed there bringing my camera with me, crossed the police line and took some pictures. I remember my hands trembling. I remember hearing my heart pounding. I was in high school then, hobbying photography. Right there, I felt the rush and the power to tell the news in pictures. I fell in love with photojournalism." Charlie Saceda is based in the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga. During his 10 years of news photography, he had covered the conflict-affected Mindanao from terrorism to insurgencies, embedded with the military on operations and covered the frontlines. en-us Allan Eguin, the victim of a chemical gas explosion, in a government hospital in Pagadian City in the southern Philippines. His wounds have been cleaned by a relative. <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/446066/enter_9_small.jpg' /><br />Allan Eguin, the victim of a chemical gas explosion, in a government hospital in Pagadian City in the southern Philippines. His wounds have been cleaned by a relative.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446066'>Allan Eguin, the victim of a chemical gas explosion, in a government hospital in Pagadian City in the southern Philippines. His wounds have been cleaned by a relative.</a> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:44:33 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446066 A nun covers her nose from the stench as she passes the site where about thirty people were killed when a chemical gas tanker exploded in a remote town in Zamboanga del Sur, southern Philippines. <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/446036/enter_8_small.jpg' /><br />A nun covers her nose from the stench as she passes the site where about thirty people were killed when a chemical gas tanker exploded in a remote town in Zamboanga del Sur, southern Philippines.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446036'>A nun covers her nose from the stench as she passes the site where about thirty people were killed when a chemical gas tanker exploded in a remote town in Zamboanga del Sur, southern Philippines.</a> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:44:20 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446036 An infant cries after being inoculated by local doctors in Talabaan town in Zamboanga City, during a United Nations Children's Fund vaccination campaign in the war-torn areas of the southern Philippines. <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/446039/enter_7_small.jpg' /><br />An infant cries after being inoculated by local doctors in Talabaan town in Zamboanga City, during a United Nations Children's Fund vaccination campaign in the war-torn areas of the southern Philippines.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446039'>An infant cries after being inoculated by local doctors in Talabaan town in Zamboanga City, during a United Nations Children's Fund vaccination campaign in the war-torn areas of the southern Philippines.</a> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:42:32 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446039 Women and children wait for the latest news of fighting after being displaced when Philippine government forces and rebels clashed in the hinterland of Jolo island, southern Philippines. <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/446057/enter_6_small.jpg' /><br />Women and children wait for the latest news of fighting after being displaced when Philippine government forces and rebels clashed in the hinterland of Jolo island, southern Philippines.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446057'>Women and children wait for the latest news of fighting after being displaced when Philippine government forces and rebels clashed in the hinterland of Jolo island, southern Philippines.</a> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:41:40 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446057 A Philippine Airforce gunner directs operations as the helicopter carrying the bodies of killed soldiers takes off from the school in Basilan Island, southern Philippines. <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/446054/enter_5_small.jpg' /><br />A Philippine Airforce gunner directs operations as the helicopter carrying the bodies of killed soldiers takes off from the school in Basilan Island, southern Philippines.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446054'>A Philippine Airforce gunner directs operations as the helicopter carrying the bodies of killed soldiers takes off from the school in Basilan Island, southern Philippines.</a> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:40:46 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446054 Philippine Marines carry body bags containing fallen comrades which are to be airlifted from a school in the eastern part of Basilan Island in the southern Philippines. <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/446051/enter_4_small.jpg' /><br />Philippine Marines carry body bags containing fallen comrades which are to be airlifted from a school in the eastern part of Basilan Island in the southern Philippines.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446051'>Philippine Marines carry body bags containing fallen comrades which are to be airlifted from a school in the eastern part of Basilan Island in the southern Philippines.</a> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:39:55 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446051 Philippine Marines guard the port as hundreds of reinforcements arrive in Basilan Island, southern Philippines. Government forces are being drafted in to fight local insurgents. <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/446048/enter_3_small.jpg' /><br />Philippine Marines guard the port as hundreds of reinforcements arrive in Basilan Island, southern Philippines. Government forces are being drafted in to fight local insurgents.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446048'>Philippine Marines guard the port as hundreds of reinforcements arrive in Basilan Island, southern Philippines. Government forces are being drafted in to fight local insurgents.</a> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:39:06 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446048 A Philippine Marine takes a rest while waiting to be deployed for an amphibious-landing assault on a beach on an island near Basilan province in the southern Philippines, during joint naval exercises with American forces. <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/446045/enter_2_small.jpg' /><br />A Philippine Marine takes a rest while waiting to be deployed for an amphibious-landing assault on a beach on an island near Basilan province in the southern Philippines, during joint naval exercises with American forces.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446045'>A Philippine Marine takes a rest while waiting to be deployed for an amphibious-landing assault on a beach on an island near Basilan province in the southern Philippines, during joint naval exercises with American forces.</a> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:37:39 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446045 Patrolling on the flight deck aboard the USS Harpers Ferry during joint RP-US naval exercises in the southern Philippines. <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/446042/enter_1_small.jpg' /><br />Patrolling on the flight deck aboard the USS Harpers Ferry during joint RP-US naval exercises in the southern Philippines.<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446042'>Patrolling on the flight deck aboard the USS Harpers Ferry during joint RP-US naval exercises in the southern Philippines.</a> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:36:32 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/446042 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/378025/CS_B_EVAC_009_small.jpg' /><br /><br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/378025'></a> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:05:06 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/378025