Photography in the Philippines:

Taking Place

          No doubt, today’s media and advertising industry heavily exploits “Fashion and sexy” themes, Over time public perception of what is acceptable has also broadened. This trend drives the demand and naturally glamour photography is increasing in popularity.

          The increase of photography popularity is not very surprising. Many men and women want a different experience to try: wearing different clothes, accessories and trying different creative ideas is a whole different experience.

          Me, personally is one of the few people is so in love with taking photos and photography itself. Since grade school I’m already an aspiring photographer and up to this moment I’m still dreaming of achieving and becoming that person. I love to capture anything under the sun. Cell phone cameras will do for me. Everyone who is into it has different stories to tell behind the photos they capture.

          Photography itself is simply the art, science, and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film, or electronically by means of image sensor. But to people who is serious about it has different explanation what’s photography is all about. Some would say: “Photography is a way of expressing my thoughts and ideas”, “It’s my way of showing my feelings.” And other says “It’s my way of inspiring people.”

          I was mesmerized by one person I get to know through one of the most popular social networking/ photography sites in the world today, Instagram. He said he’s not a professional photographer but he captures beautiful, amazing, great photos and each of them has a story to tell, selfless, with life and will wowed you every time you’ll see it. He is Dan Suansing, 21 years old, a young man from Bacolod City. I admire him for being such a gentleman and humble kind of person. I got the chance to ask him “How photography change his life?” he replied “ I guess it changed me in a way I can appreciate the things around me and especially the environment, because without the environment I can’t take good photos of the sunset, sunrise, clouds, plants, animals, etc.”

          For me photography is a bridge of gaining new friends. Because, by that site I gained one. And that person teaches me how to love and appreciate photography, the nature and everything we have right now. Because, we can’t have to those things forever. So captures many photos as much as you can. He let me experience a world inside the lenses, photo cards, and the camera rolls. It’s a whole different experience and it always gives me reason to come back again and one extraordinary reason to stay.

          Photography open doors to those people who want to show their feelings and emotions in a more creative way. Photography takes you to another place. Photography is not just about how you take a shot, show the angles, different positions. It’s all about the story you want to tell people who see it and their interpretations about it.

          Photography in the Philippines has always been amazing. Filipinos are known for being so creative-minded in every single thing they do. We may not be a rich country, but then we can make solutions out of every problem we encounter and that’s one of the most amazing things we must be proud of. Philippines have a lot of great photographers around and I can say that Filipino photographer’s are much better than others, and I really brag about it because Filipinos are also good storytellers also because we’ve experience a lot, we’ve overcome challenging things in life no one has ever expected to happen, we’ve been through battles and many other obstacles, and we’ve all fought that with one big reason “to live.”

          Photography in the Philippines has already takes it place and still continue to grow.