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About our Speakers

Heidi Aquende 

has been shooting professionally since 2006. Her work had been published in leading magazines and broadsheets. She finished her double major in De La Salle University, for Psychology and Advertising Management. She continued her studies on photography in New York, at the International Center for Photography. Her other works including celebrity, fine art, fashion and family portraiture may by found at www.heidiaquendephotography.com. Family portraits at www.portraitsbyheidi.com. Together with her husband Melvene, they run & operate Camera Cart Studio.

Aldwin Aspillera

has been playing around with a camera for the past 16 years. He has shot for some of the top magazines, agencies, and companies here in Manila and abroad. abroad. Recently, he started focusing more on his first love which is food. These days he divides his time between shooting food photos for some of the top hotels and restaurants in the Philippines and running his own bakery.

Atty. Tim Calumpong

finished his Bachelor of Laws at the University of the Philippines. His artistic mind was honed during his college days in Silliman University in Dumaguete City where he studied creative writing. Today, Atty. Tim dabbles in photography even as he pursues an active law practice. Having made his way thru the college of law as a working student, he manages his time well even if he mixes court appearances with portrait and wedding photography. He has years of experience in the civil, criminal, labor and intellectual property law. He has worked with the government, as a consultant of the government thru the Congressional Oversight Committee on Labor and Employment; with an international institution as Administrator of its operations; and even with the academe as a lecturer for the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Program for Lawyers at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law. He is the Special Counsel of Zambrano and Gruba Law Offices, a firm known for its corporate and intellectual property law practice.

Jaykee Evangelista

is an illustrator and art director. 

Graduated Bachelor of Fine Arts in University of Santo Tomas batch 96. 
First job was as a Visualizer in Mileage Marketing and Advertising. Then Summit Media, his first magazine was GamesMaster, then Top Gear and Entrepreneur. Currently he's with the Creative Solutions Team of Summit Media.

Website: jaykee.carbonmade.com
Instagram: @titoshakey

Jeryc Garcia

is a photographer, printmaker, and multimedia arts mentor based in Manila. At present, he is part of the multimedia arts faculty of the School of Design and Art of the College of St. Benilde where he teaches Desktop Publishing, Typography, and Graphic Design. He also holds classes at iACADEMY in Makati where he is responsible for developing the Advanced Digital Photography course program under the Department of Multimedia Arts. He worked in the Advertising industry for more than 17 years and was Group Creative Director of Square Communications in Vietnam prior to joining Benilde in 2012. He has also spent time in Publishing as Men’s Health Philippines magazine’s Founding Editor-in-Chief. In 2009, he presented nearly 100 portraits of Filipino WWII veterans in Honolulu for his first solo and international show. He is currently working to exhibit those photographs here in the Philippines. When he is not teaching the visual arts, he is studying it. Jeryc is currently pursuing post-graduate studies in Fine Arts at UP Diliman and is planning to give his skills and time to development work in the future. You can check out his current projects at cargocollective.com/jerycgarcia or follow his posts on Instagram via @jerycgarcia.

Workshop Schedule

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 NN
12:00 NN - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Registration
Business Branding for Photographers by Heidi Aquende
Mobile Photography by Jeryc Garcia
Lunch Break
Breaking into Editorial Photography by Jaykee Evangelista
Copyrights & other Legalities by Atty. TIm Calumpong
Food Photography by Aldwin Aspillera