Anu Kumar

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Kurt Soller |Anu Kumar

IN THE QUIET Philippine province of Pangasinan, about three hours north of Manila, depending on the city's often heavy traffic, there was once a small beach house - an open-air bamboo-and-mahogany pavilion with walled-off bedrooms and a thatched roof - on 50 or 60 acres of otherwise empty oceanfront land.