TECNO and artist Angélica Dass have launched the Philippines chapter of 100 Portraits of Becoming, a global documentary project that uses mobile imaging to tell more layered human stories. Inquirer Technology reports that the Manila gallery features 20 people connected to solo motherhood, including working mothers, adults raised by solo mothers, overseas Filipino worker families and community advocates. The project is technology news with a social angle: it shows how a smartphone camera can become part of a larger effort to document identity, family roles and the experiences hidden behind familiar labels.
The portraits were captured on the TECNO CAMON Slim 5G using TECNO Universal Tone, the company’s imaging technology for representing a broad range of skin tones. The Philippine chapter is titled “See Beyond Labels,” and its subjects were photographed in places connected to everyday life, such as workplaces, homes and community spaces. That location-based approach gives the gallery more context than a product catalogue. The phone remains part of the story, but the editorial purpose is to make the people and their circumstances more visible rather than reduce them to a single role.
The project also connects mobile photography to Filipino realities. The Inquirer report cites estimates of 14 to 15 million solo parents in the country, with women accounting for most of that group, and notes the scale of overseas work that shapes family arrangements. The portraits turn those broad numbers into individual accounts of ambition, care and resourcefulness. Participants describe careers, education, community work and parenting as overlapping parts of life. For readers, that makes the gallery relatable: technology is being used not only to capture polished moments but also to preserve personal context.
For TECNO, the Philippines chapter supports the CAMON Slim 5G’s “Make It Lighter” positioning while extending the brand’s global 100-portrait archive beyond its Kenya launch. The campaign’s value will depend on whether audiences engage with the stories rather than only the device behind them. It also raises a useful standard for phone-camera marketing: show what the technology enables, explain how images are made and give subjects room to speak for themselves. In that sense, the gallery presents smartphone imaging as a tool for attention, representation and connection.
