The Philippines, where we live, is an extraordinary, three-dimensional paradox. There are the most stunning landscapes and the most unbelievably squalid towns and settlements. There is shiny affluence of a Western kind, side-by-side with endemic poverty. We can just as easily find light and laughter as we can find abject despair and the absolute darkness of the human soul. One of us takes photographs to interpret what he sees; the other one does the same thing with word-pictures. We wondered whether we could produce a "montage" of our surroundings. Keith says: "Jim's photographs and my...