Audrey N. Carpio

3 weeks ago | vogue.ph | Audrey N. Carpio

How a photograph of a 76-year-old Filipina woman and her granddaughter, a junior surf champ from Baler, ended up in the Maritime Museum of Barcelona has a back story that spans over a century. Lines that are traced through history run more like ocean currents that circle the globe, pulled and pushed by trade winds, carrying life across vast distances, and bridging together distant shores.

3 weeks ago | vogue.ph | Audrey N. Carpio |Artu Nepomuceno

Three months had passed in Tanzania and Jane Goodall hadn’t even come close to a chimpanzee. Her long-dreamt trip to Africa to study animals in the wild was off to a rough start, with setbacks caused by village conflicts, bouts of malaria, and the general reticence of the chimpanzees, who would flee whenever they saw Goodall and her scouts approach. With only a couple of months left before her funds ran out, the 26-year-old British would-be scientist was growing anxious and impatient.

1 month ago | vogue.ph | Audrey N. Carpio

After recovering from my foot fracture last fall, I was still walking with slight pain and an uneven gait. The doctors I had consulted (Dr. Google, Dr. Reddit, and my uncle who is an EENT) said that full recovery for someone my age, that is, in the perimenopausal range, would take at least four to five months.

1 month ago | vogue.ph | Audrey N. Carpio

In a room decorated with plushies and a poster of K-pop group Girls Generation, Paulyn Navia works from her home in Batangas, a laptop on her bed. She annotates data for training AI systems: tagging objects, identifying residential buildings on satellite images, categorizing consumer products like Cheetos and Lays for e-commerce applications, or marking vehicles for software used in self-driving cars.

2 months ago | vogue.ph | Audrey N. Carpio |Borgy Angeles

Carved into the Kupapey mountainside are the Maligcong rice terraces, a dramatic landscape forged over generations of Bontoc families. In a feat of engineering, they built stone walls and shaped rice paddies following the contour of the slopes, directing the flow of water downward to irrigate the entire network of terraces below. The rice terraces epitomize what Augusto F.