Julie Batula’s pick in her sabong work

From Julie Batula's One Way Out series

When I roamed around the gallera (cockpit arena), I saw these three men who look like doctors treating the wounded cocks. But they were so fast in treating them that they looked like stamping passports.

That’s how I came up with the title, One Way Out. They’re treated so that their wounds will heal and will be put to the fight again after a few weeks. It’s only when these birds are dead that they can stop.

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