Spain and Portugal
Taken with a Canon AE-1 Program, 35mm film in Madrid, Lisbon, Fatima, Nazaré, and Porto
Featured in: RAW Artists Exhibition on January 2020 and Artists of Tomorrow Exhibit in March 2020
TABLE FOR ONE
January 3-4, 2019, APSACE _Gallery (Makati, Philippines)
February 25, 2019, M1-5 Lounge (New York, USA)
_Gallery at ASPACE
Featured in Art Plus Magazine and Philippine Daily Inquirer
Conception Arts
Featured in The Philippine Star and Manila Bulletin
The host at the cafe looked as though he didn’t hear me correctly the first time, so I said it more defiantly: Table for one, please.
If I wanted to count my film camera, which never left my hands, I would have asked for a table for two. Maybe even a table for nine if you wanted to count the rolls of film I had with me. However, I decided early on that there would be no room for digital photography at the table. With digital, there’s a tendency to devote more time editing a photo than actually taking a good photograph. With film, it was the exact opposite.
When I first landed in Europe, I was probably more nervous to use a film camera than navigating my way around cities I had never been to before. There was no plan to find the most photogenic scenes in Denmark and Switzerland—I just showed up to places with my Canon AE-1. Although I distance myself from my subjects, I always look for how they interact or complement each other. Having to depend on 35 frames and natural light makes you tend to see things a little bit more differently.
Anyway, the host gestured to me and said, “Pick any seat you like.” So, I chose the table with the best view.
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Summer in the City
Taken with a Canon AE-1 Program 35mm film camera
New York and the Philippines, June - August 2019
Exhibited in
Conception Arts; M1-5 Lounge, NY (Nov 2019)
RAW Artists; Melrose Ballroom, NY (Nov 2019)
The Society of Philippine-American Artists; Philippine Embassy, NY (Oct 2019)
Hong Kong Diaries
December 26–31, 2018
Taken with Canon AE-1 Program and 35mm film
Colors of My Travels
January 3-6, 2018, Discovery Primea (Makati City, Philippines)
Set up by ThemeWorks Events
Discovery Primea
Featured in The Philippine Daily Inquirer and The Philippine Star
It turns out a lot of colors can come from a little maroon book containing 36 pages and one terrible passport photo. (Thankfully said passport photo wasn’t horrible enough to be denied entry into a country but bad enough to have immigration officers do a double take upon opening my passport.) When I mapped out the series, I bounced between the sensation of time travel and the feeling of a homecoming. On one end of the spectrum, I got to re-visit places I hadn’t been to in years. On the opposite end, I remembered what everyone around me was like at that moment. Talk about whiplash. Just because the photographs aren't arranged by the date that doesn’t make it any less autobiographical.
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