Philippine Photographer gets facelift.

It is good to be back shooting!
We are reviving PhilippinePhotographer.com and relaunching Photo.net.ph as PhilippinePhotography.com. Why? Its about time we put some direction in the Photography scene. There are just too many photographers and photography is growing at fast pace. We have decided to make use of these domains to reach out to Photographers online.
We [...]

Manila Bulletin Violates Photographer’s Copyright

Manila Bulletin Has Violated Photographer Anton Sheker’s Copyright of some Vigan Photos… more on the story on Anton’s Blog http://www.photo.net.ph/blogalicious/2007/10/01/major-daily-violates-photographers-copyright-and-intellectual-property/

Adventure & Fashion Photographer Jake Verzosa

Jake Verzosa

While eyes are considered windows to the soul, it may be more apt to deem the lens as the more idyllic vantage point to discover a photographer’s character. More specific, the photos created may very well be your testament to the lensman’s life and personality. In Jake Verzosa’s case, it is but natural to [...]

Photographer, freelance journalist Bobby Timonera

Fiesta sa Mindanao exhibit ko sa CCP, Feb. 2004. Taken by Arnel Macariola.
Bobby Timonera is a freelance journalist, doing both writing and photography. He worked as a staff reporter of the Philippine Daily Inquirer in Manila from 1992-97, then joined its Mindanao Bureau when he and his family went home to Iligan City in the [...]

Official Statement from Summit Publishing

From Toto Labrador:
This letter was forwarded to me from my contact at supplements …
Dear Photographers who work with Summit,
First, we apologize for any offense caused the contract may have caused.
Our intention was the opposite. As the leader in the magazine industry, we
wanted to professionalize the relationship between photographers and Summit
by creating a written contract between [...]

Summits Response..

Here is a copy of the original contract that summit wanted photographers to sign.. would you sign it?
More on this topic here… photo.net.ph/blogalicious
read on..
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PHOTOGRAPHERS? & ILLUSTRATORS? ACCREDITATION CONTRACT
SH Publications Inc. Summit Publishing Co., Inc. Philippine Entertainment
Portal
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Article 1. Purpose
This agreement aims at establishing fundamental rules regarding conditions
and procedures in the assignment and acceptance [...]

Philippine Photography Rate Guide Initiative

TOWARDS A RATE GUIDE FOR THE PHILIPPINE PHOTOGRAPHY INDUSTRY
The absence of a standard rate guide for photography services has been a constant dilemma for Philippine photographers. In recent years, as camera manufacturers have been making professional level digital cameras more and more affordable, the number of people entering professional photography has also been on the [...]

Photographer Lester V. Ledesma

How did you get started in photography?
I bought my first camera (a Minolta Maxxum 300si) in
1995 during a trip to New York and started taking
pictures ever since. I was a college student then, and
I joined the school paper the following year. I got my
first break in 1998 when Mabuhay Magazine asked me to
do a story [...]

The Philippine Photographer

The PhilippinePhotographer.com website is dedicated to the Philippine Photographers who have in one way or another contributed to the growth of local photographic industry. These are the people that have served as inspirations and have put Philippine photography in the world map of photography.
We shall be interviewing our local artist and try to get an [...]