Philippine Photography Scene

Best Practice Recommendations for Social Networking Sites

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:12:00 +0000

In response to member requests, ASMP commissioned attorney Chris Reese to undertake a review of the Terms of Service (TOS) of six social media sites and to prepare findings and recommendations. The sites included in his assessment are Facebook, Photobucket, Flickr, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter. This report presents recommended best practices, considerations, common terms used, and hypothetical situations photographers may face when images are posted on social networking sites.

Summary of Best Practices

Decide why you are considering posting your images
Read the Terms of Service
Browse through the site to get an idea of its functionality
Decide whether you have chosen the right social networking site
Embed each image with copyright, contact, and other information
Consider posting only small, low resolution versions of your work
Review the TOS regularly to see if the terms have changed
Contact the site if you become aware of misuse of your images

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Warning: Facebook and MySpace Strip Photo Copyright Data

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Just a thought

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:15:00 +0000

'Professional photographer' is defined as as someone who make a living out of his/her practice of photography. But how will you define a photographer who is not making considerable amount of money from his/her work but is dedicated to his/her craft? Can he/she be called 'professional' photographer?

Comments and insights are highly appreciated.

Postcards from Manila

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:09:00 +0000

Windmills in Bangui, Ilocos Norte had been photographed a hundred times and its refreshing to see some unique POV. See more of Bobby Wong's travel images (available free for personal use). Head on to: http://www.postcardsfrommanila.com/

Talk on Creativity with Gilda Cordero-Fernando and other artists

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:21:00 +0000

Artist Talk
November 14, Saturday
3-5pm

Bridging the Arts and the Sciences

Be here when the arts and sciences walk and talk a common path. In a rare conversation, a panel of artists and scientists will explore with the audience what it means to be creative in their respective fields.

Do they both experience eureka moments? If they do, do these moments come with a big bang or lightly on tiptoe? In what measure is creativity genetic or nurtured? Is it absolutely essential that society support the artist and scientist so they can excel at what they do?

Maria Isabel Garcia, curator of The Mind Museum at Taguig, will mediate this risky rendezvous between artists and scientists. Gilda Cordero-Fernando will conduct a creative exercise-join panel discussion. This activity caps the art exhibit Philippines, Oh My! Philippines of GCF.

The event is free of charge but reservations are required. Please contact Leonore Casuga at 8160044 or email us at manage@silverlensphoto.com.

Image: Gilda Cordero-Fernando, Miss Philippines between Two Colonizers, 2009

Isa Lorenzo, 004:Release

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:02:00 +0000

Opening Reception: Nov 18 (Wednesday) 6-9PM
20SQUARE

Isa Lorenzo, 004: RELEASE

Largely a meditative reaction to her time as a recipient of the Japan Foundation Jenesys Program Creator-in-Residence at Tokyo Wonder Site, Isa Lorenzo’s ‘RELEASE’ explores the underside of the Japanese cultural identity – one that prioritizes homogeneity and conformity - and probes human expressions for “letting one’s hair down,” and “blowing off steam.”

Using the Philippines as her reference point, the artist observed that the assimilated group identity in Japan supersedes the individual’s identity. They have a saying: the nail that sticks out is hammered hardest. As a reaction to societal homogeneity, their “expressions for releasing control are extreme in Japan through subcultures—fetish, cosplay, and wota. As the title suggests, my work for this show takes off from this premise of releasing control,” says Lorenzo.

The photograms in RELEASE are from printed material ubiquitous to public spaces: tear sheets, exhibition flyers, performance advertising. They are layered aesthetically and printed correctly with the corresponding tonalities. Half of the pieces in ‘RELEASE, she leaves unaltered. They remain controlled. The other half, she disrupts the perfect layering and printing by using micro explosives - a release control from the darkroom.

Followers of Lorenzo’s work will notice that each piece is titled with a word or two – a marked departure from her pattern of leaving works numbered or dated. Lorenzo says, “the series is a set of traditional and universal symbols but are also personal talismans to move ahead in life”. ‘RELEASE’ is a collective set of accidents and mistakes, of images disrupted, of spontaneous signifiers.

Isa Lorenzo’s RELEASE will run from November 18 to December 12 at Slab’s 20Square and will be shown alongside Rachel Rillo’s ‘GRAIN’ at the Silverlens Gallery across the bridge.

For inquiries and more information on RELEASE, please contact Cathy Paras-Lara at communications@silverlensphoto.com or 816-0044.

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Grain by Rachel Rillo

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:55:00 +0000

Opening Reception: Nov. 18 (Wednesday) 6-9PM
Silverlens Gallery

Rachel Rillo Breaks It Down With ‘GRAIN’

Rachel Rillo opens her latest photography exhibit, ‘GRAIN,’ on November 18, 6pm at Silverlens Gallery.

Her latest work is a meditation on paring things down to their material source: plaster, wood, plastic. Objects photographed are small figures that are visual representations of something real. With the use of light alone, Rillo intentionally alters and deletes backgrounds and other contextual hints. Size, the environment and any other relationship the object photographed could have outside of the material from which it is made and what it symbolizes has been negated.

“Photographically, this particular work was a challenge because I had to get rid of all clues surrounding the object. The task was to make the photographs as minimal as I could get them to be without touching them up or altering them with light,” says Rillo.

GRAIN is a glimpse into the quiet truths in the most basic of equations. A cube with a triangular top is instantly a symbol of a house. A rounded figure on a shaft is a bust symbolizing a human form.

There are installations of photographs of religious iconography paired with a small plastic bag of ground, melted, pulverized, and pulped material. Assuming that the bag holds part of the subject, the photographer posits the questions: Has the idol, icon, or symbol lost its meaning? Is it sacrilege? Is it a gram of dirt or a holy gram?

GRAIN is a meditation on the elusive gestures of form and material - the nuanced expression, the violent confrontation, the abandoned and scarred. It is a reflection of the disjunctive spaces between symbolism and spirituality, memory and possession.

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Remember When: A Photo Exhibit by Rene Lumawag

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:51:00 +0000

Remember When
A Photo Exhibit by Rene Lumawag
12 November 2009, 4PM
2/F SM City Davao

As it is: A Collective Portrait

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:32:00 +0000

As it is, the collective output from the Espen Eichhöfer workshop is now online. Read more here.

Optical Medium Photography Exhibition

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:19:00 +0000

17 November 2009 - 3 January 2010
Indigo Gallery
Bencab Museum
Km 6 Asin Road, Baguio City, Philippines

The Camera

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:55:00 +0000

A workshop about photography's main tool: its origin and evolution, and the different types it has evolved into.

A discussion on what the Classic Camera was, before it had become another computer peripheral.

An in-depth course on how the Camera works, its parts, and its application.

A lot of Photography Courses now claim to be not equipment centered. Celebrating the equipment seems to have become a "shameful" aspect now- but at the same time many of these courses rely on the fact that Photography has become easier to teach when the cameras used both provide do-it-all automation and instant gratification.... Rangefinder Filipinas believe that the first step towards making meaningful and relevant photography is through mastery of the main tool first.

And the emphasis is on the CLASSIC. The celebration and use of the tools from simpler times.

Read more here.

Moments Frozen inTime

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:54:00 +0000

Moments Frozen in Time
An Exhibit of Dance Images
Yunchengco Museum
27 October - 2 December 2009

For Martha Graham, dance can only be collected in other media. Alongside film and video, photography is the most important means of recording dance. Its images are sculptures of human posture and light. Like theater photography, it uses stage lighting. Like photojournalism, it concentrates on the motionless moment within a movement.

Moments Frozen In Time: An Exhibit of Dance Images is a traveling exhibit organized by the Tanzarchiv (German Dance Archive) and the Goethe Institut. Rather than just present the history of dance photography, it focuses instead on the more modern trend towards the visualization of dance.

Exhibit highlights and programs include:

The Green Table film screening at the exhibit
Rhythm Is It! film screening (November 4 & 7)
Moving Body with Mind and Spirit artist talk with Jeannie Javelosa (November 18)

Yuchengco Museum is located at RCBC Plaza, corner Ayala & Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenues, Makati City. For more details, contact Luisa Zaide of Goethe Institut at 817-0978 or e-mail program@manila.goethe.org.

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Call for Proposals

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:41:00 +0000

The Japan Foundation and the University of the Philippines Vargas Museum are accepting proposals for curatorial projects for a workshop on curating contemporary art from November 24 to 25, 2009 at the UP Vargas Museum. The project aims to provide a platform for interaction among young curators, their peers, and established practitioners in the field.

The curatorial proposal of 500-800 words should include a working title; a brief explanation of the project, with reference to artists, space, and relevant logistical details; and conceptual issues or theoretical reflections. Only individuals 35 years old and below may submit. After the proposals are selected, the proponents will be advised to write a more detailed essay for the workshop.

This initiative is set against the broader interests of the Jenesys Program for Art Curators, which seeks to develop curatorial resources in the region.

Deadline for proposal is on November 6, 2009 and may be e-mailed to vargasmuseum@yahoo.com, vargasmuseum@gmail.com, or bdiaz@jfmo.org.ph under the reference “Curatorial Development Program.”

Conversations @ SLG

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:15:00 +0000

Conceptualism in Contemporary Photography
Oct 17, Saturday
3-5pm

Silverlens Gallery invites you to a related gallery event of Wawi Navarroza's exhibit, Perhaps It Was Possibly Because, this Saturday, October 17 at 3pm. It will be a discussion on the conceptualism in contemporary photography. Guests are artist and educator Judy-Freya Sibayan, artist Sandra Palomar, writer Angelo Suarez, and Wawi Navarroza, to be moderated by Silverlens Gallery Director and artist, Isa Lorenzo.

The event is free of charge but reservations are required. Please contact Leonore Casuga at 8160044 or email us at manage@silverlensphoto.com.

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Beyond Frame: Philippine Photomedia

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:52:00 +0000

Opening: 1 October 2009 |2-5:30pm
Ateneo Art Gallery
Ground Floor Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila University,
Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City

Ateneo Art Gallery presents "Beyond Frame: Philippine Photomedia," curated by Gina Fairley. The show features the works of Poklong Anading and MM Yu, Ringo Bunoan, Mario Co, Lena Cobangbang, Christina Dy, Romina Diaz, Lani Maestro, Gina Osterloh, Rachel Rillo, Norberto Roldan, Gerry Tan, Steve Tirona and Tony Twigg.

Photography vs. Photomedia - a contemporary Philippine definition. A panel discussion moderated by Beyond Frame Curator Gina Fairley will start at 2PM. Panelists include Alex Baluyut, Isa Lorenzo, Wawi Navarozza, Sandra Palomar and Judy Freya Sibayan. Discussion will focus on the state of photography / photomedia now and how the Philippines sits within that history of large-scale photo art and trends within the region.

Exhibit runs from October 01- December 15, 2009. For directions to Ateneo Art Gallery call 426. 6488. The exhibition continued until 15 December.

Visit Ateneo Art Gallery Website.

Canon Photo Marathon 09

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:43:00 +0000

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Artist Talk & Slideshow: ESPEN EICHHOEFER: Family and Photographs

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:34:00 +0000

Kjell Und Vinai, 2003

The Silverlens Gallery and Goethe Institut invite you to an Artist Talk and Slideshow by visiting editorial photographer Espen Eichhoefer. Here in the Philippines on a grant from the Goethe Institut, Eichhoefer has been conducting a workshop on Portraiture in Silverlens Gallery. A workshop that received an overwhelming number of applicants. His talk will focus on photography of family. "Private family pictures always produce positive images, confirming that these people belong together", he says. "But what of the possibilities of different stories to contend?", he questions.

The talk is open to the public. RSVP required at 816-0044 (Leonore).

150 Faces

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:43:00 +0000

An Ateneo de Manila University Digital Photography Festival
Celebrating 150 Years of Engaging the Youth
Open to ALL ATENEANS everywhere
Students Alumni Parents Faculty Staff

Submission of Entries:
September 14, 2009 - October 15, 2009
150faces@gmail.com

The 150 Faces Digital Photography Festival seeks to exhibit one hundred and fifty powerful images of Filipino young people today that reveal the profound diversity of their experiences, the opportunities and challenges they negotiate, the multiple identities they construct for themselves, and the magic, resilience and sheer possibility that are so much a part of being young.

Please also note the following stipulations:

Release

By entering the festival, the entrant authorizes the Ateneo de Manila University to reproduce, distribute, display and create derivative works of the entry in connection with the Sesquicentennial Celebrations of the Ateneo de Manila University, the Loyola Schools Agenda for Hope Project, and the 150 Faces Digital Photography Festival in any media or hereafter known.

License

By entering the festival, all entrants grant an irrevocable perpetual, nonexclusive license to the Ateneo de Manila University to reproduce, distribute, display and create derivative works of the entries (along with a name credit) in connection with the Sesquicentennial Celebrations of the Ateneo de Manila University, the Loyola Schools Agenda for Hope Project, and the 150 Faces Digital Photography Festival in any media now or hereafter known, including, but not limited to: display at a physical exhibition, publication of a book featuring entries in the Festival, and online publication. Entrants consent to the Ateneo de Manila University doing or omitting to do any act that would otherwise infringe on the entrantʼs “moral rights” in their entries. The Ateneo de Manila University will not be required to pay any additional compensation or seek any additional approval in connection with such use. Additionally, by entering, each entrant grants to the Ateneo de Manila University the unrestricted right to use all statements made in connection with the Festival, and pictures or likenesses of entrants, or choose not to do so, at their sole discretion. The Ateneo de Manila University will not be required to pay any additional compensation or seek any additional approval in connection with such use.

For details, click here.

PhotoworldAsia 2010

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:28:00 +0000

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DWELLING by Frankie Callaghan

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:35:00 +0000

Silverlens proudly presents Dwelling, a series of images by Frankie Callaghan. As in his process and concept, Callaghan captures the ambient aura and light of the city. He takes to the backstreets and saturates dwelling places, monuments of cement and metal, in washes of light and color from their immediate surroundings.

He seizes rare glimpses of stillness, steeped in an acute awareness of the present. “I found myself drawn to the quiet, empty spaces of urban fringes at night and to the unintentional beauty of dwellings that seem to have grown organically out of the sincere need for shelter and the limits of material and space.” says Callaghan. His forthright perception eliminates the noise of judgment and elucidating the scenery with evidence of stories and leaves viewer to speculate. And as a product of his candid process and perception, he reveals the indwelling life and beauty that are most often overlooked.

Dwelling by Frankie Callaghan opens at 6 pm on September 9, 2009, Wednesday, and runs until the 3rd of October 2009 at Silverlens Gallery. As a related gallery event, Frankie Callaghan will be hosting Sound Reaction a music and sound event where musicians and DJs interact with the photographs from the show. The even will take place on October 1, 2009, Thursday from 6-9pm at Silverlens Gallery.

Dwelling will be shown alongside Archetypes by Stanley Ruiz at 20Square, and Tears, Cuts and Ruptures, a group show featuring 10 collage artists organized by Gary-Ross Pastrana at SLab.

BazaART ‘09 @ One Workshop Gallery

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:58:00 +0000

Sought-after signatures as well as the newest names in art will be on artworks at the BazaART ‘09 of the One Workshop Gallery from 9AM to 6PM on Saturday, August 29, and from 1 to 6PM on Sunday, August 30, 2009. BazaART ‘09 features paintings, photographs, sculptures, etchings and prints by Filipino greats and foreign artists, as well as professional-grade art materials at specials rates of 50 up to 80% off of gallery prices.

Artists with works at One Workshop Gallery’s BazaART ‘09 include Ambie Abaño, Rommel Aggravante, Al Nezzar Buday Ali, Sherwin Andal, Ral Arrogante Julio Austria, Pandy Aviado, Errol Balcos, Henry Bateman, Bernardo Billedo, Malyn Bonayog, Arnel Borja, Estan Cabigas, Demosthenes Campos, Rossano Capili, Jonathan Castro, Rogelito Cayas, Jr., Danilo Celum, Salvador Ching, Julius Clar, Carlo Claudio, Buds Convocar, Jeff Cua, Wenceslao Cuevas, Jr., Emil Davocol, Joe Datuin, Fil dela Cruz, Edwin de Guzman, Al Dimalanta, Ferdinand Doctolero, Leonilo Doloricon, Dopy Doplon, Kiko Escora, Egai Talusan Fernandez, John Marin Flores, Jesus Genotiva, Don Gurrea, Tommy Hafalla, Luis Martin Harder, Rick Hernandez, Raul Isidro, Anton Isip, Nap Jamir II, Arvin Javier, Edwin Jumalon, Amiel Lapuebla, Richard Larios, Cathy Lasam, Manuel Librodo, Luis Lorenzana, Jing Magsaysay, Red Mansueto, Joel Mendez, Perfecto Mercado, Miguel Nacianceno, Annie Neis, Yuan Mor’O Ocampo, Red Ognita, Vincent Padilla, Kelly Ramos Palaganas, Edillardo Paras, Jun Porlares, Jill Posadas, Ige Ramos, Allan Razo, Rissa Recio, R. Ricardo, Rafa Rod, Beatriz Robles, Chris Rudio, Noel Sadicon, Donna Samonte, Danilo Santiago, JP Sarmenta, Renato Silbol, George Tapan, Resty Tica, Bobby Timonera, A.C. Bada Torralba, Wig Tysmans, James Uy, Lilen Uy, Ronald Ventura and Romy Vitug.

The BazaART ‘09 will also hold a Swap Meet where art works may be exchanged for items of equivalent value. 10% of all proceeds from the BazaART ‘09 Swap Meet goes to OWG.

Artists not affiliated with One Workshop Gallery are also welcome to participate in the BazaART ‘09 by availing of table space at the following rates: Php 1,500.00 for August 29, Php 1,000.00 for August 30 and Php 2,000.00 for August 29 and 30. Table space for participating artists is limited.

The One Workshop Gallery is an integral part of the One Workshop, Inc. (OWI). Specializing in art for investment and collection purposes, the Gallery has been providing exhibition venues for both established and emerging artists since 2006.

BazaART ‘09 at the One Workshop Gallery is at the Ground Floor of 2241 La Fuerza Plaza II, Don Chino Roces Ave. corner Sabio St., Makati City. Gallery hours are from 10am to 7pm daily except Sundays. For inquiries, call Didith Ladao at 810-5094, fax 819-2074, e-mail one_workshop@yahoo.com or visit www.owg.cc.

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L to R

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:01:00 +0000

L to R
Lisa Lerec, Leah Sanchez, Reina Sanchez, Carlos Tito Santos, Rachelle Wenger and Thomas Wenger
August 27, Thursday, 6-9pm

L-to-R, curated by photographer Johann Espiritu, presents photographs from his six-week workshop, "The Idea of Creativity in Photography". L-to-R stands for "left to right", the order in which the class would often critique images. On a superficial level, these works do not appear to have any relationship to each other. It is common practice for the viewer of a group show to look for connections between images. Are the subjects similar? Are they made or presented using like materials? What do Liza Lecrec's color photos of a life-size doll attending a meeting with men in suits; Leah Sanchez's boxes housing photos of home; Carlos Tito Santos'Rachelle Wenger’s studies on curiosity; Thomas Wenger's sometimes studied, sometimes spontaneous photographs; and Reina Sanchez's ink-jet prints on recycled paper have in common? They are made by people who discovered what they care about and what photography can be.

Image: Reina Sanchez, Color TV, 2009

Hello Malaysia: Travel Light 2009 Photo Workshops

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:31:00 +0000

Photo Exhibit/Tradeshow
August 31 to Sep 6, 2009 - SM Mall of Asia Atrium

Photo Seminar/Workshop
Sep 2 to 5, 2009 - SMX Convention Center

For more info, click here.

New Online Photography Magazine to be launched on 1 August 2009

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:19:00 +0000

The Black Snapper is a project created by designer Frank Kloos and documentary photographer Diederik Meijer, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Black Snapper aims to create an online community that will inspire photography professionals and photography enthusiasts worldwide.

Read more here.

World Press Photo 2009 Exhibition | Manila

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:18:00 +0000

SCHEDULE

The Podium
Sat 01 Aug 09 - Exhibition open for public
Mon 03 Aug 09 - 18:30 h. Official opening
Sat 08 Aug 09 - Last day of exhibition

The Block, SM North Edsa
Sun 09 Aug 09 - Exhibition open for public
Mon 10 Aug 09 - Official opening
Wed 19 Aug 09 - Last day of exhibition

Mall of Asia
Thu 20 Aug 09 - Exhibition open for public
Thu 20 Aug 09 - 18:30 h. Official opening
Sun 23 Aug 09 - Last day of exhibition

EXHIBITION VISITING HOURS

Monday - Thursday : 10:00-21:00
Friday - Sunday : 10:00-22:00

Exhibition is being organized by Ateneo de Manila University Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo and supported by SM Malls/ SM Prime Holdings, and Unilever Philippines.

Portfolio Review Days @ Silverlens

feature.pps@gmail.com (Philippine Photography Scene) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:46:00 +0000

Moderated by Rachel Rillo, Isa Lorenzo and Others

A portfolio review is a good way to evaluate in which direction your photography is going. A regular objective review is essential in any photographer's growth, either as a shooter of found photographs or as a creator of staged images. Three portfolio review dates are available on an appointment basis. The photographer is encouraged to choose one date, all reviewers will be available to see their work.

September 5, September 19 or October 3
Saturdays, 1-4 pm
Fee: Php 1,000

TO REGISTER: Call Leonore at 8160044 or 09052650873, email manage@silverlensphoto.com 50% Reservation Fee required. Balance due on the first day of classes.