Growing up, I never liked playing with toys, well, except for Legos. Most of my childhood revolved around arts and crafts and painting. If the majority of the kids back in the 90’s played with gameboys and their new Captain Planet Action Figures, I played with Pens and glues and colored papers. My version of going to the toy store was going to the school supplies section, those that had endless shelves of coloring materials and art supplies. Oh! Did my heart skipped a beat when my dad would buy me all the art materials I wanted.
By the time I was highschool, I started liking fashion. I remember having my first copy of V magazine with Beyonce on the Cover. I was amused by the size of the magazine which was poster-sized but what amused me more was the ad campaigns and the editorials inside. I can clearly remember the sketch I made of Daria Werbowy from and ad campaign back when the world has never heard of Andre Pejic and androgynous was just a word mainstream only to the fashion world. It was then that my fascination with fashion photography started. I started collecting tear sheets of photos that I found amusing. I even asked one of my classmate to give me her Time magazine’s Style & Design issue because the photos inside were too good not to include in my compilation.
It was in college that I started tinkering with my family’s digital camera. It was my friends who played guinea pigs for my practice shoots and it was a different rush especially when the photos I took felt like an artwork to me. After graduation, I had my first dslr camera and from then on, I started doing photoshoots. But it was a different story back then, I had no team of hair and makeup artists and designers to work with. It was only me and my trusty stylist assistant. From that first shoot until now, I can say that I have grown a lot as photographer and I am looking forward to the day my works are splattered all over fashion magazines both locally and internationally.
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