Photo Updates and Events

Zone V Camera Club awards its Photographer of the Year–

The Zone V Camera Club, one of the most active camera clubs in the country, recently held its yearend party. Part of the festivities was the awarding of the Club’s Top Ten Photographers of the year. Incumbent president Willie de Vera bagged the much coveted Zone [...]

Images of Rescue, Relief, and Recovery–

SM City Rosales significantly reopened its doors to the public during the Thanksgiving weekend, highlighting hope and SM’s commitment to take an active part in the development of this municipality in Pangasinan
It will be remembered that much of the province, along with Northern Luzon, was devastated last September due to [...]

Singapore International Photograph Festival–

From December 11 to January 9, select works from the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) 2008 will travel to Manila for a month-long exhibition.
SIPF satellite partner, Silverlens Gallery, hosts the visual feast for the Filipino community, providing extended exposure for the select SIPF 2008 photographers.
The SIPF is a biennial gathering of minds [...]

Canon Photo Marathon 2009 reveals creativity under pressure–

The Canon Photo Marathon 2009 attracted a record number of participants, with close to 600 hobbyists and professional photographers attending the annual event on November 14 in Tagaytay City.
It was the fourth installment of the country’s only time-pressured photo marathon contest that featured three themes while testing the [...]

Getting a Photographer’s Second Wind–

Instead of mouthing a jaded “been there, done that,” Luis Martin Harder knows that there were things he didn’t see and that he left undiscovered. Combining his being an explorer and a perfectionist, this has served him well in the creation of his second exhibition collection aptly titled, “Second Wind.” To [...]

The ‘magician of light’ in focus–

Per-Andre Hoffmann is giving some of his photographs a new darkroom treatment and exhibiting them at the ArtistSpace, Ayala Museum in Makati City from December 2 to 16. Once described as a “magician of light” by fellow photographers, Hoffmann has won numerous international awards and has been published worldwide in [...]

Breaking it down with ‘Grain’–
 

Rachel Rillo, a graduate of the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, is now holding her latest photography exhibit dubbed as ‘Grain’ at the Silverlens Gallery in Makati City.
Her latest work is a meditation on paring things down to their material source: plaster, wood, plastic. Objects photographed are small figures [...]