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Known for his raw and energetic photographs of underground scenes and subcultures, Brian Sergio’s new photobook “Lost and Found” was created during a period of “loss and isolation” following several drastic events in his personal life, including the death of his grandfather, the burning down of his family’s house, a creative drought, and the end of a difficult relationship.
Shot in vivid colors, Sergio depicts this time in his life in diary-like captures that reveal contradictory, at times almost incongruent aspects of his native Philippines – sex, freedom, and self-expression, but also religion, rules, and misery.

“I realized that even with the smorgasbord of raunch sex-filled activities, I found that by impulse, I had been taking pictures that were out of my usual wheelhouse.
They were in colour, they were subtle, yet vivid, with hints of nuances of the life I had left behind. It was a journey to a subconscious that took me back to a place which remains familiar even now. It was the mundane details of my past that I’ve either neglected or just not seen. It was home, a place I longed for but had forgotten. A place I didn’t know I was looking for.”
― from Brian Sergio’s foreword