Jun Miranda
Jun is the first Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) and Adobe Certified Instructor
(ACI) in Photoshop (2000) and Lightroom (2008) in Asia. He is likewise a Canon
EOS Brand Ambassador and a Canon PIXMA Brand Ambassador.
He is the president, creative director and resident photographer of PixelMagic,
a digital imaging studio and service bureau since 1996. He is a CompTIA
Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+ Certified Professional) and is also the
president and program director of PCCI.
Jun is past president of the Camera Club of the Philippines, and was founding
president of both the IdN Club Philippines (the country's first association of
digital artists) and Club de Camera Digital (the country's first association of
digital photographers). He is also a member of the National Association of
Photoshop Professionals.
He is a product of the Maine Photographic Workshops (Rockport, Maine), Dynamic
Graphics Educational Foundation (Peoria, Illinois) and United Digital Artists
(New York). He also took Creative Training Techniques under Robert Pike and a
class on Corel Painter under Jeremy Sutton, instructor, lecturer and author of
several books on Painter.
Jun writes a regular column for Manila Bulletin called “Digital
Focus”, and lectures at different trade shows here and abroad.
Romir “Rem” Aglugub
Romir “Rem” Aglugub is a passionate scuba diver since 1982. A nurse by
profession for more than 30 years, but spends almost all his free time scuba
diving & on photography. Certified PADI Instructor since 1994, & Certified PADI
Underwater Photography/Videography Instructor since 2000. A dedicated scuba
instructor & underwater photography instructor. Being a certified Basic Life
Support & First-Aid Instructor, & Marine Injury First-Aider, safety & injury
prevention is always his primary concern when teaching underwater courses.
On December 26, 1997 – Discovered the presence of Whale Shark (Butanding) in
Donsol, Sorsogon, Philippines. Underwater amateur video footage was presented to
WWF Philippines. On March 1998 – GMA-TV Saksi anchor Karen Davila made a full
media coverage of the discovery by Rem of Donsol Whale Shark. It is now popular
as the “Whale Shark Capital of the Philippines”.
Jan Aliling
Jose-Antonio "Jan" T. Aliling is a practicing lawyer by profession, but a photographer by passion.
Not to be thrown off by his jovial disposition, Jan is a seasoned litigation and corporate lawyer who is known for his no-nonsense work ethics and professionalism. He is currently the Managing and Senior Partner of Jose Antonio Aliling and Associates, and the Chairman of Acube Legal Support, Inc.
He is a Supervising Lawyer at the University of the Philippines, College of Law, Office of Legal Aid and a Lecturer and Teacher at the College of Law of the New Era University.
Jan is also the Director for Legal Affairs and Corporate Secretary of Jose Aliling Construction Management Group of Companies, one of the country’s largest, if not the largest, 100% Filipino-Owned Construction Management Companies.
He is also a part-owner of a several business enterprises in the food, trading consultancy, and retail services.
Amidst his busy schedule, he regularly accepts professional engagements for commercial, documentation, travel, and portrait photography shoots. He has serviced clients for photography services for brochures, annual reports, magazines, websites, and even commercial billboards.
He also passionately engages in Photography projects with a purpose. He has done various engagements with various agencies of the United Nations, including the UN International labor Organization and UNICEF, the Department of Foreign Affairs, and various charitable and socio-civic institutions to create awareness for their respective advocacies.
Jan has also won several awards and recognitions from various local and international photography competitions, including that of The Camera Club of the Philippines and International Photography Awards, among others. His works has been part of two published photography books: Intimate Images published by the Camera Club of the Philippines; and The Fifth Element published by Black and White Asia. He has participated in a number of photography exhibits as well.
Jan is currently a Director at The Camera Club of the Philippines.
Rommel Bundalian
Award-winning digital artist, both here and abroad, and one of the most talented photographers. Rommel is a past president of the IdN Club Philippines, the first and leading organization of digital artists in the Philippines. He is also an all-around photographer but who specializes on wedding portraiture and coverage. His photographic works have been featured in several local publications which includes i-mag photography magazine, Lifestyle Asia Magazine, Lifestyle Asia Travel, Mega Magazine, People Asia, and View Magazine.
As a digital artist, he was a featured artist of Wacom Asia in its March edition couple of years ago. His works were also featured in Corel Painter Official Magazine. The magazine's editor wrote, "Rommel Bundalian has become a firm favourite of the magazine website, so we decided to find out more about the man behind the art."
Jijo de Guzman
Jijo is a part-time professional photographer and photography instructor focusing on Sports and Action, Landscapes and Travel. For Sports and Action Photography, his client list include Marlboro, Timex, PLDT, Nestlé, Milo, Adidas, Mizuno, Bike King, Unilab, Neilpryde, Philippine Windsurfing Association and Philippine Swimming Association. Since starting his part-time professional career in 2008 has shot close to 60 sporting events with about 20 on the national level, 12 on the international level including 3 world championships and has conducted over 35 sports and action photography workshops, talks and clinics. He is also very experienced in editorial sports photography and is currently the resident photographer of New Leaf Multimedia Outsourcing Inc. for Endurance Sports Magazine.
Jijo is a top-notch Landscape photographer and Travel photographer as well. He won 4 IPA awards in 2015 and has been part of local and international exhibits. He is a regular member of the Camera Club of the Philippines. Since joining the club just quite recently in 2013, he has already won a total of 31 awards the highlights of which are being a 2-time Black and White Photographer of the Year, 2-time Single Shot Color Photographer of the Year, On-The-Spot Photographer of the Year, 2-time Master Photographer 2nd Placer and the Master Photographer of the Year for 2015.
He is a Canon Crusader of Light/Brand Ambassador and also a Brand Ambassador for Benro, Black Rapid and Transcend. He is supported by Lowepro, Formatt Hitech and Hoya Filters as well.
With a rich set of background, experiences and achievements, many consider Jijo as a very talented all-around photographer and instructor.
Steve De Neef
Steve De Neef is a Belgian who has found a second home in the Philippines. He
is very familiar with the diving around the archipelago and its marine life. He
has won awards for his underwater photography, is a regular contributor to
popular blogs like DivePhotoGuide and has been experimenting with dLSR video
since these cameras came out. His portfolio can be found on stevedeneef.com,
Blogspot, Flickr, and Vimeo.
Dail Deri
A photographer, instructor, and writer, Dail combines her father's technics with
her own. With experience in running a portrait studio and home-service
portraits, and photographing celebrities and "ordinary" people, she has shared
her knowledge in photography in various seminars and workshops in the
country. Dail took up communications arts major in photography at De La Salle
University.
Ibarra Deri
Ibarra Deri, a renowned portraitist, is the first photographer to be included
in Huwaran Filipino Achievement Awards' Who's Who in the Philippines. Deri (as
he prefers to be called) started photography as a simple hobby. He has three
college degrees unrelated to photography: a bachelor's degree biological
sciences, a masters degree in teaching in biological sciences, and a degree in
dentistry. For love of portraiture, he founded the Society of Portrait
Photographers of the Philippines. An avid magician, Deri spices up his
photography lectures with magic tricks. He owns and operates three photography
studios in both Metro Manila and Bicol.
Mark Floro
Mark, a Canon (EOS) Brand Ambassador, is one of the most sought-after food
photographers in the Philippines.
In his twenty-year career, he has put together a client list that includes some
of the biggest names in the food industry, such as Chow King, Jollibee, Manila
Peninsula, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Purefoods, Robinson's Convenience Stores, and
San Miguel Corporation. He is past president of the Advertising Photographers
of the Philippines, and former director of the Advertising Suppliers
Association of the Philippines (through the photography sector).
Mark also has a degree in commercial advertising photography from the Arts
Center, College of Design (Pasadena, California). His portfolio can be found on
markfloro.com and
markflorophotography.com.
Jojo Guingona
Jojo has been a practicing professional photographer for almost 20 years. He has been a hobbyist for most of his life. His work spans the gamut of the craft from fashion to food to editorial but he has always been drawn to architectural photography and the confluence of light, lines, patterns and shadows. Jojo is a member of the Camera Club of the Philippines, Asia’s Oldest Photographic Society.
Tilak Hettige
Tilak, a product of New England School of Photography in Boston, USA, has
worked in the photography industry since 1981 in places like Boston, Washington
D.C, Sri Lanka, Oman, and the Philippines. He is an accomplished
author-photographer. He first won international recognition when he became the
photographer of the year in the International Photographic Society, Washington
D.C. in 1997. In addition to winning many subsequent awards Tilak’s work
has been published in many books, international newspapers, magazines and
calendars. His photographs have also been displayed in many exhibitions in the
Philippines and outside and several of them are in private collections in
several countries. Among his publications are the recently released Tilaka: The
Spiritual Third Eye and Saffron Robes: A Photographic Essay on Buddhist Monks.
Currently he is working on two more books. He now resides in Manila and has
joined the country's most prestigious Camera Club of the Philippines.
Raymund Isaac
A graduate of De La Salle's Communication Arts, Raymund Isaac is the president
and resident photographer of Portfolio Photography & Studio, Inc. He
started his career as a photographer by being an assistant photographer to Nap
Jamir II and Neal Oshima. His client list includes local and international
publications like Cosmopolitan, Mega, Metro, Metro Wedding, Philippine
Tatler, Elle, American Photo, People Asia, and Icon; advertising agencies like
Publicis Manila (Nesvita, Nestea, Nido), Pacific Asian Advertising Specialist
(Marie France, Facial Care, Svenson), Ace Saatchi & Saatchi (oxygen,
Penshoppe), McCann Erickshon, New Direction (SM), BBDO, Ogilvy & Mather,
etc.; and direct clients like Jollibee, Bench, Bayo, Kamiseta, Folded &
Hung, Adidas, Gift Gate and Warner Music. A multi-awarded photographer here and
abroad, Raymund was the 2002 Overall International Winner in the Glamour
and Beauty category of the American Photo Magazine (New York). His works
were also featured in other magazines such as Elle and Quo.
Tino Ley
Tino himself is a walking example of his own premise: He got hooked on
photography at the age of nine, and today runs a portrait and video studio
servicing De La Salle (Manila and Lipa), Letran, PWU, U.P., International
School, to name a few. A longtime member of the Camera Club of the Philippines,
he himself has attended many of PCCI's classes on photography and Photoshop and
is also one of the Center's success stories.
Lon Liwen
International fashion photographer Lon Liwen was involved in a variety of careers before going full time in photography. Lon Liwen is the professional name of Raymond Lontok.
During the Nineties, Li was one of the youngest fashion designers in the Philippines to run a flourishing line of ready-to-wear clothes. He branched out to publication by starting one of the country's esteemed publishing houses and conceptualizing and realizing its premiere fashion magazine. He also managed a modeling agency that maintained an international portfolio.
He produced widely read publications that focused on the nude male form and gender issues such as Rice, Brief Encounters and Brief Moments. He provided the template for the highly popular Bench underwear shows by conceptualizing and producing its first two productions. He created Preview magazine and founded Summit Media. He also published Fashion Forecast, a trade publication devoted to Philippine fashion.
In the early 2000s, Li started an international career in fashion photography with bases in Canada, Milan, Paris and New York. He helped nurture the careers of a number of today's top fashion models by lending them his keen eye and creativity.
Li now makes the Philippines his home, frequently traveling around the Asian region for a variety of assignments.
Richel Mascariñas
Richel began capturing perfect wedding images early on as a hobbyist while
still studying Architecture at the University of Santo Tomas. Upon graduating
in1990, his wedding photography was relegated to weekend bookings while he
worked in an architectural firm in Makati.
His practice became fulltime in 1994 when he decided to give up his career to
pursue his passion and he opened up his first studio (Heritage Home Video
Production) a year later. He has covered wedding rites and receptions in almost
all Christian and Non-Christian churches in Metro Manila, in different
provinces and abroad.
He is currently an officer of the biggest and the most respected Wedding
Photographers' organization in the country, the Wedding and Portrait
Photographers of the Philippines (WPPP).
His passion for photography has made him one of the most sought after wedding
photographers in the country and his expertise has been featured several times
in TV programs, wedding magazines and major dailies.
Menchit Ongpin
Menchit has photographed for various newspapers and lifestyle magazines such as
Sense & Style, People Asia, Cook. She has also taken on physically demanding
assignments such as industrial photography.
As a lifestyle photographer for a leading magazine, Menchit’s “beat” included
not just the expected people photos but also architectural exteriors and
interiors, food, fashion, and culture. Because a professional food stylist was
usually not part of her team, she learned to do the styling and plating herself.
Her background as a real estate broker gave her an insider’s view of
architecture, besides developing her skills for dealing with all kinds of
clients.
Working for magazines taught Menchit the discipline of adapting to situations,
especially when photographing celebrities and businessmen, and working fast.
A personal project, photographing a ballet dancer nude in gymnastic poses, was
published in a photography magazine.
Albert Pedrosa
Albert Pedrosa is a commercial photographer who loves shooting fashion. He writes Photography for SunStar Daily, IMAG photography magazine and in Picture Perfect of Manila Bulletin.
He is a natural teacher that inspires students of his love for fashion photography. He started shooting during his high school days and continued shooting in College. He spent more than a decade in print advertising and decided to shoot again sometime 2009.
He is an Adobe Certified Expert and Color Specialist. He is a Canon Professional and handles workshops for Canon Imaging Academy. He has a studio in Malate where he does his commercial and creative work.
Andy Samaniego
Andy has always been fascinated with taking photographs since his childhood
days. In 1999, his enthusiasm for portraits, events and scenes that captured
his imagination elevated his desire to take photography to the next level, thus
turning his childhood passion into a career.
2002 marked Andy's entrance into the wedding industry, and since then his craft
has been in constant development, not only with the latest trends but also with
the artistic vision he wishes to express. Taking this as a positive challenge,
he honed his skills in portraiture,product illustration and travel photography.
Andy also expanded his repertoire to include corporate requirements and aerial
photography.
Since then, Andy has always captured the hearts of his peers and clients with
the images he produces, both personal and commercial. His photography is as
passionate as his faith, and he always looks forward to new and exciting
challenges and opportunities to express his deepest emotions while
communicating his distinctive vision.
Edwin Tuyay
Edwin is a photojournalist who shoots for international publications, including
Newsweek, Time, Fortune, Paris Match, and Esquire. He has also done 4 covers for
Reader’s Digest magazine, that were printed in the magazine’s 19
editions. Currently, he is the official Bloomberg News photographer in Manila.
From 1986 to 1988, Edwin was a staff photographer of the Manila Chronicle,
covering the Senate, Malacañang palace, military and congress beats. He was also
the first staff photographer of Asiaweek (from 1988 to March 2001). He covered
major events, and photographed movers and shakers of the Asian region.
His book credits include Mt. Pinatubo: 500 Years After, Eyes on Asean,
Philippines: Spirit of Place, The Philippines: A Journey Through the
Archipelago, 100 Years of Meralco, DBP: 50 Years, EDSA People Power 2,
The Cory Aquino Funeral by ABS-CBN, Avida, 20 Years, 65th Year of DBP,
and the Land Bank of the Philippines’ “Harvest of Heroes”.
Currently, Edwin is the Vice President (Internal) of Wedding & Portrait
Photographers of the Philippines (WPPP) and Photography Roadtrippers
International.
Patrick Uy
Patrick is one of the most sought-after wedding photographers in the country.
His clients include some of the biggest names in local industry, politics, and
show business. He also specializes in advertising photography and is the
proprietor of Pacific Light Studio. He is past president of both the Camera
Club of the Philippines, and of the Advertising Photographers of the
Philippines. Patrick has a bachelor's degree in business management from Ateneo
de Manila University.
Che Vienes
Che Vienes introduces herself as a canine and feline portraitist. Artist who specialize in companion animal photography (dogs & cats).
Popular among pet lovers for having recently featured in Manila Bulletin’s Picture Perfect section ‘Photographer of the week’ Sept. 6, 2016, and Philippine Daily Inquirer Feb. 14, 2017 for her works as an advocate for the love of animals, her chosen field became her favorite subject because as a pet lover and owner, she can execute artistic concepts naturally and comfortably with these creatures.
With her aim to provide clients “with beautiful concepts and lasting imagery through hard work, creative mind, and style,” Che shines in her field with her dedication to providing a visual artistry in animal photography.
Vienes has been in the photography business since 2013 – shooting for private clients and (Kennels) commercially. Her works has been featured CNN, WLOX News, CBS, ABC, and local TV station ABS CBN news. Her imagery is used by International BEVIE and Gilded Magazine and other online blogs/News in Asia and United Kingdom.
Currently working with Pet oriented Magazines locally (Animal Scene Magazine) and pet care industry, pet organization (groups) such as CARA Welfare Philippines, Gerald Anderson Foundation and Phil. Canine Club Incorporated.
Clients include Dr. Clauder Philippines, Doggies Choice Pet Care Products, Ezydog Philippines, Italian Product (Monge) dog/cat food and Bengal Brew/Wolf n Bear Café.
Ed Yap
Ed is the former managing editor/art director of i-mag photography
magazine. He has lectured on photography, creativity, digital file handling for
laymen, and career opportunities in image editing. He was formerly creative
director at Dailey & Associates, Graphic Atelier, Ad Strategists, and at
his own design studios, E/FX Graphics, Design Matrix, and Show & Tell. The
hats he has worn are those of advertising copywriter, website designer and
administrator, audiovisual producer, and graphic designer.
