PHOTOWORLD ASIA 2020 SPEAKERS

Even if this year’s theme for PhotoWorld Asia 2020 is Travel and Lifestyle some speakers will talk about something else which may sound out of topic like fashion, bird, creative thinking, wedding, finance, and more. But I like to assure our participants that whatever they share to us, we listeners get benefits from their lecture

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Edwin Tuyay – He is the official brand ambassador of Sigma Lens and Lumix mirrorless camera influencer in the Philippines. He was a still photographer of Regal Films and Cine Suerte during the 80’s. He also worked as a staff photographer of The Manila Chronicle.

In 1988, Asiaweek Magazine, a Hongkong based news magazine owned by Time, Inc. hired him as its first staff photographer covering the Asian region. Edwin photographed the movers and shakers of the ]Asian region until 2001. He was also an on-assignment photographer of Bloomberg News from 2001 to 2014. His corporate clients are the blue chips companies in the Philippines. 

Edwin Tuyay teaches Photojournalism and Corporate Photography at the Philippines Center for Creative Imaging. 

Betty V. Lalana – Betty started her travels all around the Philippines. shooting the still existing 300 heritage churches in the Philippines. She has loved animals since she was a child, and she also loves to shoot them.

Expect that Betty will share among our PhotoWorldAsia 2020 participants how to photograph small and big game animals. With the growing global interest in eco- preservation and endangered animals, this is indeed a very timely topic. 

Amos Manlangit – Our speaker will stir the participants’ viewing power with various techniques to capture creative shots of even the most common subjects. Similarly, he shares his experience in teaching the history of art focusing on insights about the future drawn from his interactions with the youth. He realizes that making sense of one’s history is a valuable window to look into how future generations will do art. This session aims to generate conversation on how photographers and artists can be inspired by the past to lead the arts into the future.

He taught at the Kalayaan College in Quezon City, then at UP College of Fine Arts. He has also conducted a number of workshops in fine arts including Mandala plate painting, visual arts, dance, music, and literary expression to advocate for the therapeutic power of arts. He is affiliated with the Expressive Arts Network Philippines, MAGIS Creative Spaces, Art Ventures and Advocacy Network Philippines, MAGIS, Creative Spaces, Art Ventures, and Advocacy NetWork, Arts for Good Fellowship Singapore, International Expressive Art Therapy Association and the Rotary Club of Quezon City.

Dalareich Polot – An engineer by profession, she is the founder and CEO of Ginto Fine Chocolates Corporation which makes artisans, bean to bar chocolates. She is the manager of Dalereich Chocolate House in Bohol, Philippines. The following year she was granted a scholarship to study food engineering especially chocolate at Ghent University in Belgium. Late in 2015, she launched a social enterprise called Ginto Fine Chocolates which makes artisanal bean bar fine chocolates using cacao beans from her island.

This supported the cacao farmers and helped her parents in their family business of making cacao liquor for chocolate drinks called Tableya in the Philippines. Tourism Stories of the Philippines, a book launched in March 2016 by the USAID COMPETE and the Department of Tourism also featured her. This year she was invited to have a study tour in the United States under the International Visitor Leadership Program to promote women entrepreneurship in the Philippines. The following year she was chosen one of the 10 social enterprise awardees of the Bank of the Philippine Islands and as Accelerator Program for Social Entrepreneurs. She was among the finalists for INJAP SIA Young Entrepreneurs Award in the Philippines.

Edwin M. Suson – He attended the Price-Babson Symposium of Entrepreneurship Educators in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and trainee at the University of California Entrepreneurship Academy in Davis, Sacramento, California. He is an accredited trainer of ABS-CBN Bayan Academy for Grassroots Entrepreneurship Management and an accredited facilitator in Knowing about Business Program of the United Nation International Labor Organization given at the International Training Centre, Turin, Italy. He is also a Certified Entrepreneurship Teacher at Network at Bay Area, San Francisco and a Certified Ice House Entrepreneurship Facilitator at Kauffman Foundation-Entrepreneurship Learning Initiative in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He is often invited as a speaker in Financial Literacy, Entrepreneurship and Marketing.

He is a graduate of Bachelor of Computer Science at AMA, Diploma in Marketing at Ateneo de Manila University and a Master of Science in Management Degree at the University of Asia and the Pacific. He is now an assistant professor at the College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Sto. 

Cris Magsino – Our multi-awarded speaker is here to guide us in our passion for photography. Year 2019 won for him the World Photography Cup and 2 Honorable Mentions, 2019 Tokyo International Foto Awards. It was only in 2016 that he found his passion for landscape photography. Currently, he is a Brand Ambassador of Nikon Philippines and NiSi Filters Philippines and is also a Benro Tripod Influencer.

As a representative for these brands, Cris conducts talks and workshops around the country to share his experiences in photography and inspire fellow artists who share their passion for photography. 

Mike Sia – Even if he is fond of cooking, golf, and rafting, he shares among PhotoWorldAsia 2020 participants a very important segment of photography. . . wedding and lifestyle. . . which offers a lucrative source of income. How much do portraits or wedding albums cost? Good photographers command their price, and Mike Sia shares his secret techniques and experiences in this particular section of photography. So it is not a matter of simply clicking the shutter.

He owns Mike Sia Photography. He is an active member of the Oro Photographic Society. He is also a Nikon school instructor.

Though he hails from Cagayan de Oro City, he attended Xavier University High School and De La Salle University. Currently, he is affiliated with the following organizations: Abenson Group of Companies (Assistant to the Chairman), Solomon Construction Supplies (Child of Owner), Bugsay Rafting Corporation (General Manager), NGS Video & Music (Child of Owner), XU Eucharistic Ministers of the Holy Communion, OAR Rafting Group< JIC Cagayan de Oro, Lions Club.

Dariel and Catherine Quiogue – Both took up these courses for the sake of photography. Together they have done work for the National Commission on Culture and Arts, the Department of Tourism Region XII and the DavaoTourism Association and have contributed photographs and articles to Digital Photographer Philippines, Frame One Magazine, Working Mom Magazine, The Expat Magazine, Zee Lifestyle Magazine, the table books Sultada and Inspire/Empower, and the Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Art 2nd Edition.

Dariel was an instructor of Photography at the College of St. Benilde, while Catherine was chosen to participate in the Seeing Invisible Cities project, an exhibit by Peter Bialobreski in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Title: SEEKING ZEN. My wife and I fell in love with Japan’s exquisite blending of culture with nature, especially in the City of Kyoto because of the sheer tranquility we got from it. It’s like giving the spirit a shower. We realized this was largely because of the Zen aesthetic pervading the old temples and other historic old sites, so over the past few years, we’ve been learning the principles of Zen art and applying them to our photography. 

Alex Ruelo – started photography with a camera he found in the garage 16 years ago. Always wanting to try it but lacking the means and the equipment to even make a hobby of it, he went to the United States and enrolled in the New York Institute of Photography while shooting freelance on the side. From hundreds of photography studios in Manila, he found a home in Imagine Nation Photography Studio. When the company closed its doors in 2013, it was daunting to stand alone but he tried to make a name for himself in the photography industry.

Gaurav Chadha – Travel Photography

Dedicated to developing the ecosystem in the world of imaging and photo he continues to work with numerous photographers and photo labs in different parts of the world to understand and continue to lead for betterment of the photo industry overall.  In his current role as Business Manager for HP Indigo, he develops the Go To Market Model in developing the photo markets in different markets of Asia being aware of the fact that no single approach is the right one and has been trained in a range of modalities.

Pepe Diokno – is a Filipino director, producer, and writer who has made internationally awarded feature films and acclaimed commercials. The show is shot with Sony Alpha cameras, Pepe’s tools of choice for a documentary.

I’ll talk about shooting my travel show, “The Flip Trip”, and give tips on run-and-gun documentary shooting, using my favorite Sony equipment.

Sara Black – was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. Upon finishing her Communication Arts degree at Ateneo de Manila University, she jumped into her first job working at a photography studio as an assistant.

Sara has since photographed some of the most high profile celebrities and members of society in the Philippines. Sara has published two books. The first one, When I Look in the Mirror, is a series of extreme close-up portraits of real women with facial imperfections, meant to provoke contemplation in a society growingly obsessed with vanity and perfection. Sara’s second book, We, Love, is a coffee table book that combines compelling narrative, written by the photographer herself, with portraits of pairs in unique selfless bonds. This is a work where Sara’s eye for authenticity flourishes.

Reynaldo S. Sta. Ana – He discusses today how to shoot birds, a very difficult subject to capture with a camera especially the wild ones. Ana is the founding president of the Wild Bird Photographers of the Philippines and the manager of the Philippine Bird Photography Tours.

Together with his fellow bird photographers, he plans and organizes bird tours for individuals or groups, and gives lectures about this activity and of course about birds. In fact, they have exhibited not only wild bird photography in many galleries including Fort Santiago but also live ones.

Stuart Naval Dee – He discusses today Creative Travel Photography encompassing journalism, portraiture, landscape, sports, architecture, food, still life, street photography and more. He will be showing travel images from around the world with special emphasis on the Philippines to inspire others to travel more, and to learn a more creative approach to recording one’s travels. Stuart Dee gives special emphasis on the photographs taken here in the Philippines.

Let’s welcome our fellow Filipino, Stuart Naval Dee who shares with us his creative techniques in travel photography.