Estan Cabigas

I am pressured. Greatly pressured to submit work and I’m still not sure what to submit. First, I was nominated to the National Geographic All Roads Photography Program 2011 for the Mid-Career Photographer Award as recommended by Jimmy Domingo (official nomination letter received 4 March) and at around 2AM today,  I received a text from THE Yumi Goto (currently based in Bangkok) that she sent me an email. When I checked it out, she is nominating me for the Sagamihara Photo City Asian Prize 2011! Deadlines are looming.

Thanx to both photographers for the heads up and believing in my work.

Now, the hard part begins. I have to chose what to submit, edit as well as tie ends together for a better work as I await feedback from a Scandinavian photo festival if my documentary photography proposal made it.

Crossing fingers.

Estan Cabigas. Ang Langyaw. Photographer. Blogger. Traveller. Circa 2004. Davao City.

I’m growing a new ring around my trunk today.

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I will be. That is what I aspire to be. To tell the stories that matters to me and to my country. For now. Tomorrow the world. It ain’t easy. I still have a long way to go. Many things to learn. Do I have a chance? Yes. I have. I have the skills. I have the mindset. But not necessarily the wealth to support a documentary photographer’s life. I need to work through that though. There are always possibilities. There’s a way.

I am a documentary photographer. I will be.