Estan Cabigas

Finally, my copy of the Chobi Mela V International Festival of Photogaphy catalog is in my hands. Big thanx to Shahidul Alam, Festival Director, who hand carried it and gave it to me last night during the Alumni homecoming of the ACFJ.

I was promised last year that my copy will be mailed but really haven’t gotten it and now this: hardbound, thick and heavy weighted paper featuring the works of the different photographer artists who showed work at the festival interpreting the theme Freedom.

My work, Coping with a Desaparecido, was the lone Philippine entry. Check my other Chobi Mela V posts.

View Coping with A Desaparecido work

After being featured in a series of international and local magazines* last May and this month, my work, Gagamboys, is being featured in the Asian Currents, Journal of Works and Studies in Asian Journalism published by the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism (ACFJ) at the Ateneo de Manila University.

This is the ACFJ’s special 10th Anniversary issue featuring the best student works submitted as a requirement in graduating in the M.A. Journalism (15 articles) and five of the best photo stories in the Diploma in Photojournalism programs that are offered. The variety reflects the diversity of interests and issues confronting today’s Asia. A photo exhibit entitled Asian News in Pictures accompanies this feature.

Gagamboys was my minor portfolio submission for my Diploma inPhotojournalism course and was taken in Bagong Barrio, Caloocan City.

*Publications featuring my work in May and June:

• National Geographic Magazine, May 2010
• Cover, main story & Viewfinder section, Bluprint Magazine, June 2010
• frontRUNNER Magazine, June 2010

In the same June 2010 issue of Bluprint where my images of San Sebastian Minor Basilica was published including the cover, my image of Marcelo Fernan Bridge also made it to the Viewfinder section. Page scan at the left.

The bridge image was taken at night a few years ago with some friends who were also into Photography. We were at the Mactan side and under the bridge. With a tripod and timer, got several photos showing this beautiful structure.

Bluprint, a locally produced design sourcebook usually features images from photographers and contributors that are mainly architectural. The short write up reads:

Estan Cabigas is a freelance photographer blogger and traveler. He has written/photographed for CNN Go, been featured in National Geographic Magazine, and published two coffee table book on Philippine Church Architecture.

Estan likes to shoot order or chaos in architectural forms. Underbelly of a Bridge was shot with a lot of patience below Marcelo Fernan Bridge between Mactan and Cebu. He maintains six blogs, two winning Best Blog at the Philippine blog Awards (2009), collects beetles, and lives in Makati City.

That’s it.

My copy of the latest issue (June 2010) of frontRUNNER Magazine just arrived. It features three of my images that I took of Haide Acuna during the Bataan Death March 102 Ultramarathon last March. The story is about the author/ultramarathoner’s experience during this punishing race co written with her husband and lone support crew, Eugene Cabusao. Check FitandRun.Info for more.