About

Hi, I am Estan Cabigas, a Filipino freelance photographer and writer based in Makati City.My ethnicity is a mixture of Filipino, Chinese and a minority, the Subanen tribe of Western Mindanao. I call Cebu as my permanent home, studied in Manila, worked in the cities of Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, Davao and Makati, the Philippines. I was a telecoms engineer for nine years and in 2006 pursued my interest in Photography.
My work has been exhibited in major cities in South and Southeast Asia, Germany and the Netherlands as well as attended local and international photography workshops. I have been the principal photographer of two coffeetable books, contributed for CNN Go, Geo (Germany), the Sunday Times Magazine and an image published in the May 2010 issue of the National Geographic Magazine. I also teach Photography at the De La Salle University, Manila and handles workshops for the University of the Philippines Film Institute.

I’m also a blogger, traveler, heritage advocate and beetle collector

I am available for projects, assignments, talks and workshops on Photography and travel blogging.

Mobile: +63 918 945 6962
Email: contact [at] estancabigas [dot] com or send via the Contact form

Education

  • Diploma in Photojournalism, 2008-2009 (Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism, Ateneo de Manila University)

Selected Works

Books

  • Balaanong Bahandi: Sacred Treasures of the Archdiocese of Cebu, November 2009
  • Philippine Church Façades, 2007

Exhibits

  • Nothing to Declare International Contemporary Art Exhbition, 18 October-12 November 2011 (Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila)
  • Noorderlicht International Photography Festival 2011, 11 September-9 October 2011 (Groningen, the Netherlands)
  • International Orange Photo Festival, 22-26 October 2010 (Changsha, China)
  • Mois de la foto, 27 October 2010 (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), nightly projection
  • Asian News in Pictures, October – November 2010 (Metro Manila, Philippines)
  • Mapping Invisible Cities, 2008 – 2009 (Six major Southeast Asian cities and Hamburg, Germany)
  • Chobi Mela V International Festival of Photography, January-February 2009
  • Surfacing: A Photo Project on the Lives of Families of Desaparecidos, Various venues in Metro Manila, 2007-08
  • Angkor Photofestival, 2006 (Projections)

Workshops and Review

  • Singapore International Photography Festival Southeast Asian Workshop, October 2008
  • Urban Photography with Peter Bialobrzsky, January-February 2008
  • Documentary Portrait Photography, Silverlens Gallery 2007
  • Portfolio review with Ben Lowy and Marvi Lacar, Manila 2006

Contest

  • Vewd.org Student Documentary Photography contest, Finalist (April, 2009)