First exposed into the art of still photography and motion pictures when he assisted a kababata filmmaker Chito Roño’s directorial debut in “Private Show,” a highly acclaimed movie and the country’s official entry to the Chicago Film Festival in 1985. While gainfully employed in private as well as in public office, established a photo and video studio, for fall back. He learned portraiture under t
he tutelage of the late Toch Arellano and basic lighting from Leo Castillo at DPI Photography Center in Ortigas Center. To further hone his skills, he is a regular delegate of PhotoWorld Asia, a yearly event hosted by the Federation of the Philippine Photographers Foundation, Inc. with the leading master photographers from the United States, Europe, and Asia as speakers; WPPP Photo Congress, an annual gathering of the country’s top wedding photographers organized by Wedding and Portrait Photographers of the Philippines; and other numerous workshops and seminars conducted by the University of the Philippines Film Institute and the Directors Guild of the Philippines, Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine Star and Digital Photographer Philippines. When Stanley Ho, a Chinese philanthropist, was conferred a doctoral degree, honoris causa, by Angeles University, Pampanga, he was the official photographer of Ho’s brief visit to the Philippines. On April 10, 2010, he covered the 100th Anniversary of Calbayog as a Diocese in Samar, with Papal Nuncio to the Philippines, Archbishop Edward Joseph Adams as presider over the liturgical celebration with 23 Archbishops and Bishops concelebrating and on March 7, 2011, the 50th Anniversary of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Valenzuela City, with a pontifical mass by Bishop Jose F. His photographic works have landed in billboards, websites, magazines and leading newspapers. Among his big time clients are Our Lady of Fatima University, Philippine Institute of Interior Designers and +Architect Gerry Contreras, to name a few. Prodded by his father to take up law, studied at the University of the East, Manila, where he obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree 1n 1997. While working as executive at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, took up masteral studies at the Our Lady of Fatima University, where he earned his Master of Arts in Public Administration degree in 2003. This former seminarian finished high school at the Seminary of St. Vincent de Paul in Dagum Hills, Calbayog City, Samar, and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, major in Philosophy and minor in English and Social Science at San Carlos Seminary, Makati, in 1979.
