An Art Photography Exhibit for a Cause
One Man Show
Opening Night: 6PM, Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Philamlife East Side Lobby, Philamlife Building, United Nations Ave., Ermita, Manila, Philippines
The exhibit will run from August 13, 2008 to September 4, 2008.
Epson is giving all aspiring and professional photographers the opportunity to showcase their talents by participating in its Epson Color Imaging Contest 2008.
The Color Imaging Contest was first launched in 1994, with the aims of promoting new forms of expression through digital printing, and to help create a rich, fun digital culture.
The Epson Color Imaging Contest offers you a big chance to compete with the best in Asia. All you need to do is shoot photographs or create graphics that best express your ideas centralized around Epson Philippines’ 10th year theme of “Achieving Perfection.”
You may submit your original photos or graphics expressing any of the following images:
This year, Epson made it easier and more exciting for you to win. Apart from the International Awards Grand Prizes, every eligible entry is also eligible to win in the Philippine country and Regional award levels. It is your best chance to gain international recognition. So, go on and let your creativity speak!
Entry submission deadline: August 29, 2008
Epson Color Imaging Contest Categories
Photograph Category
(Amateur and Professional Subcategories)
Photographic works exploring the possibilities of photographic expression through digital processes
Graphics Category
(Amateur and Professional Subcategories)
Such as digital designs, computer graphics, paintings, lithographic, illustrations, typography exploring the possibilities of graphic expression through digital processes
You have a chance to win multiple regional awards at 3 levels:
Country Awards - Best in the Philippines
(Applicable for entries in the Philippines only)
1st Prize: PHP30,000 + Epson P-5000 viewer worth PHP41,995 [1 winner]
2nd Prize: PHP15,000 + Epson Picture Mate PM270 printer worth PHP11,995 [1 winner]
3rd Prize: PHP10,000 + Epson Picture Mate PM270 printer worth PHP11,995 [1 winner]
Top 30 Merit Prizes: Epson TX200 multi-function printer
[The top 30 entries will be selected via local judging in the Philippines. These entries will be the ones sent to Japan to be eligible to win the country, regional and international awards.]
How to Enter
Send your entries along with the attached entry form to:
Epson Philippines Corporation
Marketing Communications Department
8/F Anson’s Centre
23 ADB Avenue
Ortigas Center, Pasig City 1605
or
Epson Color Imaging Contest
c/o Digital Photographer Philippines
Unit 4, Bldg 3, Jannov Plaza
2295 Don Chino Roces Extension
Makati City 1200
For inquiries, you may call:
Digital Photographer Philippines
http://www.digitalphotographer.com.ph/
Telephone: 8124612 or Telefax 7504061
PR & Marketing Communications Department
colorimagingcontest@epc.epson.com.ph
Telephone: 7062609
Note:
More info on Epson Color Imaging Contest 2008 at Epson Philippines.
There will be a two-day photography seminar from August 17 & 24, 2008. Topics to be discussed include Basic Photography Theories and Principles, Composition, Basic Studio Lighting and Flash Photography, Basic Photoshop and Basic Color Management and Inkjet Printing.
The schedule of topics to be discussed is as follows:
August 17, 2008 (9am-5pm)
August 24, 2008 (9am-5pm)
The seminar fee of P4,500/participant is inclusive of handouts, snacks, lunch and a certificate of attendance.
There are only twenty (20) slots available.
A 50% downpayment (non-refundable) via bank deposit will be required to secure a reservation.
All seminar sessions will be held at Unit 114, Gold Building, 15 Annapolis Street, Greenhills, SJ.
Interested participants may register by sending an email to pinakamagalingako@gmail.com
Painting with Light is Australian artist/photographer, Henry Bateman’s second Philippine exhibition. Where his first exhibition “Through Australian Eyes” explored different places in the Philippines from an expatriate’s point of view, in this latest exhibition Bateman addresses a wider range of ideas whilst limiting his lens to Metro Manila’s Makati City.
Using computer manipulation, he abstracts his photographs to explore his response to issues that range from current events to observations of Manila’s art scene. Bateman’s works encompass his reaction to the war of terror in “The Fractured Sentinel” and climate change in “Broken Spaces I and II” to viewing art in a Shopping mall in “Mall Art II – Stand in Line” and in a gallery in “Gossip” from a photograph captured at the Ricco Renzo Galleries.
Bateman’s work is unashamedly abstract and conceptual presenting images designed to provoke a dialogue with his camera’s captures. As American artist DL Keur says in a review of his work on her web site www.zentao.com/art-reviews-by-dlkeur. “Henry Bateman is a photographer who photo-manipulates his work into art that is at once unique and evocative.”
Painting with Light is on show at Ricco Renzo Galleries, 2nd Floor, LRI Design Plaza, 210 N. Garcia St. (formerly Reposo), Bel Air 2, Makati City from 15 August to 10 September. Open cocktails will be at 7pm on the 15th August.
Lito Sy Photography
presents
Lito Sy Workshops 2008
International award-winning wedding & portrait photographer, Lito Sy, will demonstrate what it takes to become a leading photographer in your area. He will share with you his ideas on how to create a solid business image and also how to develop a strategy for a successful wedding photography business. From shooting and post processing that make your images stand out in a crowd. He will demonstrate a few key posing and lighting techniques, as well as provide you with a breakdown of his workflow secrets. This program has a little something for everyone, including lots of before-and-after examples.
PhP 5,000 outside Metro Manila (with free lunch & snacks)
PhP 7,000 within Metro Manila (with free lunch & snacks)
Limited slots available!
20 students only per workshop
Deadline for registration: July 30, 2008
Workshop will be held in the following cities:
August 05,2008 ( Tuesday ) - Dusit Hotel, Makati City
August 10,2008 ( Sunday ) - Zamboanga City
August 12,2008 ( Tuesday ) - Cebu City - Weddings
August 14,2008 ( Thursday ) - Iloilo City
August 16,2008 ( Saturday ) - Cagayan De Oro City
August 18,2008 ( Monday ) - Batangas City
August 20,2008 ( Wednesday ) - La Union
August 21,2008 ( Thursday ) - Baguio City
August 26,2008 ( Tuesday ) - Legaspi City
August 28,2008 ( Thursday ) - Angeles, Pampanga
August 29,2008 ( Friday ) - Bulacan
For more information please call:
+63.2.893.0891 or +63.2.894.2726 or +63.917.700.5001
Visit http://www.litosy.com
Basic Lighting Seminar BATCH # 28
Venue is at Unit 602 Cityland 10 Tower 2, H.V. Dela Costa St. Salcedo Village, Makati City, behind RCBC Tower. Visit http://www.photosbykengo.com/misc/map.jpg for directions.
ONLY 5 SLOTS LEFT (All 1pm slots have been taken)
Maximum of 10 Participants
Topics:
1. Types of commonly used studio lights
2. Light modifiers
3. Trigerring lights
4. Measuring light
5. Light positions
6. Types of portrait lighting
7. Dealing with models
8. Portable wireless lighting (Strobist)
1st day of seminar will be on discussion of the topics, there will be no shooting to be done. Though there will be a hands-on practice in measuring lights using a flash meter. You will not be required to bring anything during the 1st day.
2nd day, scheduled shoots for the group (9am, 1pm and 4pm), models will be provided. Participants should only come on their time slot, to avoid over crowding. During the shoot, each participant will be asked to conceptualize a lighting set-up to be done with their model, other participants on the same group will be assisting. After the participant finishes the shoot, other participant on the group will do the same, so the previous participant will now be acting as the assistant. (round robin system) this guarantees a hands-on set-up, thus learning from actually doing it rather than just listening. This will also make sure that the participant will the only one shooting at the time of his/her set-up, so he/she gets all the needed angles to complete the shoot, no more wrestling for a spot just to get the photo.
3rd day, Portable wireless lighting discussion, includes gear needed and how to apply basic lighting techniques to this type of set-up. For the Critique session we will allow fellow students and me to critique ones work, as they say getting better needs one to realize its faults as to make sure to correct it the next possible time.
Kindly bring 1 to 2 of your favorite photo from the photo session printed on 5R, ink jet prints on photo paper are acceptable. All photos will be posted together on the wall for viewing. Ken usually also discusses some questions regarding post processing during these critique sessions.
Seminar Price is P. 3,000.00 - inclusive of handouts.
If you want to sign-up kindly email Ken at seminars@photosbykengo.com the following info:
Name:
Email:
Cel. No.:
Preferred time slot for Sunday (9am or 4pm):
Which Seminar:
Red Mansueto’s Walls of Transition at OWG Art Gallery Café
Cocktail opening at 6:30PM, July 22, 2008
Long before the terms “ecology” and “environment” became buzzwords, Red Mansueto was already alluding to it in his greenhorn days as an artist in the early 70s. As part of the legendary and seminal avant-garde group Shop 6, Mansueto incorporated discarded objects into his art pieces and used photography to document areas of environmental forms of artistic concerns.
In his 14th one-man exhibit “Walls of Transition”, at the OWG Art Gallery, running from July 22 to August 22, he continues exploring environmental issues in a new set of adventurous paintings. Once again, the wall is his focus, both as a literal surface and as a metaphor.
Walls have many meanings and uses: barrier, fortification, fence, enclosure, precipice. They can be taken literally and figuratively.
As a motif, walls offer a rich lodestone for texture, mood, effect, symbolism and lyricism.
Mansueto defines this series of paintings as part of a transition because he takes a journey into new realms, synthesizing experiences and galvanizing materials (metal, plywood, found objects) into mood pieces that suggest a cityscape in flux. He even goes further, calling some of his pieces “sculpturals” because they project volume, a solid physicality.
A viewer cannot help but see vestiges of graffiti, architectural details and rough surfaces in his works; at the same time one can feel the artist’s passion for the environment, albeit conveyed poetically.
Mansueto’s walls can be those that man builds around him, separating him from the rest of the world. They can also dramatize age and decay. They can be a cry of silence in an indifferent universe.
Stone and cement surfaces meld with bold colors of black, brown, red and ochre. Critic Alice Guillermo writes that a Mansueto painting often “conveys an atmosphere and mood one can call lyrical.” She adds, “He paints his abstractions after nature, like landscapes.”
Indeed, the titles of his works “Walls of Venice”, “Syquia Wall” and “Numeric Summer Wall” are suggestive of a particular place and time.
Mansueto is a veteran of many one-man shows and group exhibits. As a student, he was mentored first by Martino Abellana in Cebu when he was still taking up Architecture and then by Florencio Concepcion when he moved to Manila to take up Fine Arts at the University of the East.
Gallery hours are from 10am to 7pm except Sundays. The OWG Art Gallery is located on the ground floor of La Fuerza Plaza II, Don Chino Roces Ave. corner Sabio St., Makati City.
Taga-UP ka ba?Capture those uniquely UP places, faces and moments with your Smart MMS-enabled camera phone as way of celebrating the UP Centennial celebrations!
UPiktyuran Na! with Smart: UP Centennial Smart MMS Photo Competition urges University of the Philippines (UP) students, alumni, faculty and employees to share their stories about experiences in the university through words but via MMS photos taken using a camera phone and submitted through Smart’s MMS service.
The contest started last June 22, 2008 and you have until September 29, 2008 to submit your entries. Here is a snippet of the contest rules:
2.1 The competition is open to all Smart and Talk N Text subscribers who are affiliated with the University of the Philippines as: (1) student, (2) alumni, (3) faculty member, and (4) employee.
2.2 Participating Smart subscribers must register by sending in UP REG (Name/UP Campus participant is from/Position or title in UP) to 5355. Example: UP REG Bona Sy/UP Diliman/Alumni. Registration is free of charge. Participants can start sending entries on June 22, 2008 until 11:59 pm of September 29, 2008.
2.3 The subscriber or participant will receive an SMS confirmation message if registration attempt is successful. Each MMS photo entry sent will cost P1.00.
Welcome to the UPiktyuran Na! MMS Photo Competition! To send your photo entries, create an MMS message, type UP (title of photo), attach your photo and send to 5355. P1.00/MMS photo entry. All photo entries must be taken with your camera phone.2.4 MMS photo entries must be taken with a camera phone. The subscriber/participant is not allowed to send his/her photo entry other than through their mobile phone in MMS. Photos must be taken within the competition period only and should be connected to the theme mentioned above.
2.5 Apart from the registration, the subscriber’s cellular phone number will serve as his/her identification (ID). A participant can opt to register several mobile numbers under the same name and can send as many entries/MMS photos per phone number.
2.6 There can only be one (1) registered name per cellular phone number. Should a subscriber attempt to register twice, he/she will receive an error message and will be charged P1.00 from his/her load.
2.7 To send a photo entry, subscribers must simply create an MMS message, type UP (title of photo), attach their photo entry (taken with their camera phone), and send this to 5355. Example: UP MMS Sunken Garden
More info at http://upiktyuran.smart.com.ph/
Gray Area Studios
and
Michelle Morelos
present
Maximizing Your Point and Shoot Workshops 2008
Join this 2-day workshop and impress your friends and loved ones with spectacular photos taken with your point-and-shoot camera!
Choose from any of the 4 upcoming workshop dates:
Batch 3: August 2 & 9, 2008
Batch 4: September 6 & 13, 2008
Batch 5: October 4 & 11, 2008
Batch 6: November 15 & 22, 2008
Workshop fee is PhP 2,500.00 inclusive of snacks, handouts and a certificate of completion.
All workshops run for 2 Saturdays each month from 9AM to 1PM at Gray Area Studios 5/F 116 VA Rufino St., Legaspi Village, Makati City
Get in touch with Isa at +63.917.526.8676 to reserve your slot now!
STRANGER by Frankie Callaghan
SYMMETRY | DUALITY by Johann Espiritu
July 10-August 9, 2008
Opening reception: 6pm on July 10, Thursday
Silverlens Gallery invites everyone to the openings Stranger by Frankie Callaghan and Symmetry | Duality by Johann Espiritu, at 6pm on July 10, Thursday. The shows will run until August 9, 2008.
Stranger is an exhibit of night photographs by Frankie Callaghan. His love for photography began while just a boy growing up in Baguio. It wasn’t until after studying finance and management at the Wharton School of Business that he gave into his calling to work as a full-time photographer. He first exhibited his photographs at the age of 21 in Philadelphia. He was one of the participants of the “Photography as Expression” Sense-I workshop at Silverlens Gallery.
Symmetry | Duality is an exhibit of pairs, shot by Silverlens Sense-I instructor Johann Espiritu. Espiritu has had several exhibits, and is currently working on two book projects. His work has been displayed in newspapers, magazines, billboards and even featured in limited-edition postage stamps. A lawyer by profession, Johann was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2001 and to the New York State Bar in 2004.
Saturday Gallery Activities:
July 12, 3-5pm : Artist Talk by Johann Espiritu
July 26, 3-5pm : Artist Talk by Frankie Callaghan
August 2, 3-5pm : Urban Architecture Talk
August 9, 6-9pm : Game Night
Visit Silverlens Gallery at 2/F YMC Bldg. 2, 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City, 816-0044, 0905-2650873, manage@silverlensphoto.com. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am–7 pm, Saturday 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com.
Images:
(left) Frankie Callaghan
Clothes Lines, 2008
(right) Johann Espiritu
Untitled, 2008
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