Memories and Discoveries

Nature changed how I look at the world.

It can make me laugh; make me cry.

Most importantly, its greatest power makes me feel truly alive.

Creating an image, freezing a moment in time, reveals the profound richness of reality.

PORTRAIT - LIFESTYLE

BRING YOUR OWN CHAIR

Along the rugged coastline of northern Mindanao, fishing villages and mining towns stand as testaments to endurance.

Despite humble circumstances, the spirit of these communities remains vibrantly optimistic.

This resilience is captured in a simple Sunday ritual: where resources are scarce, faith is not.

Here, worshipers carry their own chairs to and from service—a quiet, powerful act of dedication and collective joy.

Bronze Winner - International Photography Awards

OUTSIDER vs. INSIDER

On the shores of northern Mindanao, a physical fence symbolizes a deep cultural disconnect.

I encountered a community of native Filipinos living in traditional ways, isolated from the surrounding local culture.

This image captures that mutual strangeness: the moment where two worlds meet at a border.

It asks a simple question: who is the outsider when the boundaries of "modernity" are redrawn?

International Photography Awards: 3x Honorable Mention

THE FOUNTAIN PEN SURGEON

Amidst the stillness of the pandemic, an elderly craftsman works at his humble street stall, his surgical mask completing the image of a man performing a delicate operation.

In an era of keyboards and touchscreens, he remains a guardian of a fading ritual.

While he can skillfully resurrect a single pen, he cannot save the heritage of the craft itself.

When his hands eventually rest, a lifetime of specialized knowledge will likely vanish with him—a final, quiet departure of an analog world.

Bronze Winner | 4x Honorable Mention - International Photography Awards

LIGHT WITHIN SHADOW

Constructed from three overlapping visual layers, this work explored the complexity of perception and self.

It is a visual meditation on the journey through darkness: a reminder that with faith as our compass, light will always reveal the path out of the shadows.

International Photography Awards: 3x Honorable Mention