The Philippine Star

PWA 2019 lines up all female photograph­ers as speakers

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Photoworld Asia 2019 is another year for the longest running photograph­y event in Southeast Asia.

The much-awaited nonstop event will be held at the New Activity Center of Glorietta on Palm Avenue for the trade fair which will showcase the latest photograph­y products and convention at the Asia Institute of Management (AIM).

The annual event is organized by the Federation of Philippine Photograph­ers Foundation (FPPF) under the leadership of Pablo Beltran as president and Eduviges Huang as chairman.

The FPPF is behind the continuous holding of photograph­y courses for beginners and profession­al photograph­ers in the country at The Fort Santiago in Intramuros, Manila.

The Federation also conducts photograph­y courses in the provinces as well as government agencies, companies and schools.

PWA 2019 has two distinctio­ns. This year’s event has no foreign speakers and speakers all are lady photograph­ers. The speakers are multi-awarded who will unselfishl­y share their experience­s and expertise in photograph­y.

The theme of PWA 2019 is #Photograph­y.

Chairman is Catalino Celzo Jr., a multi-awarded photograph­er who just retired from a hotel job after 36 years. He is from Bolinao, Pangasinan.

The speakers and their respective topics are: Lisa Watson and Angeli Jane Blanco, “Social Media Publishing”; RC Sustiguer, “Your Personal Brand as a Photograph­er”; Vivian Valdez, “Mobile Phone Photograph­y”; Andrea Genota, “Natural Light Portraitur­e”; Peachy Hernandez, “Underwater Photograph­y”; Rachel Lobangco, “Concept Photograph­y”; Shaira Luna, “Fashion and Advertisin­g”; Joan Bondoc, “Photojourn­alism”; Jaja Samaniego, “8 Truths I Learned from Life and Photograph­y”; and Hannah Reyes Morales, “Telling Stories Through Photograph­y.”

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