ARCHIVES 2019

ARCHIVES

acknowledgment

First of all, I would like to thank GOD for giving me the gift of creativity to have my own art and have it as my passion, for giving me the opportunity to pursue it, for the knowledge and ability to do art with His gift of skills. Without his blessings, everything would not be possible. To my FAMILY, for supporting me to my passion, financially and emotionally, for encouraging me in all of my pursuits and inspiring me to follow my dreams. To my professor, MR. DINO BRUCELAS, for requiring this magazine as I took it as an opportunity to be more creative and to learn more. To my friends; MIGUEL, for lending me his shirt to make me look good for my shoot, MARK, for giving me ideas on how I will look cool, ROCELLE, for capturing awesome shots and helping me to conceptualize the shoot. Lastly, to JULIA, for helping I recall my artistic life before as she witnessed me growing and learning to be an artist.

archives magazine contributors

Angelica May De Torres

Julia Aguilar Jordan Castro

Garcia Athena

Katrina Gonzales

Gian San Pedro Lizen Vales

Angelica Infante

Millicent Payao

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I WANT TO BE A

N AERONAUTICAL ENGIN EER S O M EDAY”

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HESE ARE MY WORDS

BEFORE I entered my senior high school. This is what I believed in since I was a kid when my parents suggested it to me in my grade school years when I asked them for my homework, “What you want to be when you grow up?”. My father told me that it would be better if I would be an engineer like him, and I was amazed when he told me what could possibly happen to me with a future of being an engineer. I continued pursuing the thought of being an engineer as I entered senior high school. I took STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) strand.

When I was in Grade 11, we were tasked to produce a film from books for our subject, 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World. As it was a film production, we will be needing cameras—specifically DSLR cameras. I’ve remembered that my dad purchased a standard Nikon camera for family trips and outings. Therefore, it was used for our film but I don’t have any idea on how to use it. In breaktimes during our film shoot, I played with my camera, started shooting randomly and was amazed with the shots that made me curious about the features and capabilities of the camera. I also tweaked some of its settings without any idea of what I am doing. When I got home, I Google-d on how to deal with raw file photos (turned out that my shots were in raw format), then I’ve read in a thread and forum that the best software to import raw photo file is Adobe Lightroom. I’ve immediately downloaded and imported

my raw photos to Lightroom, played with the slides and adjustments without any idea of what am I doing. Little did I know, I was already the last part of photography, the postprocessing. I asked a friend who has knowledge with what I am doing and he recommended learning the basics of photography such as exposure triangle and proper composition of photos. Upon learning through eBooks and YouTube videos, I was getting more interested with photography.

This gave me the urge to do shoots everyday even on ordinary days. Each and every day, after shoot, when I got home, I immediately will import the photos post-process it, then ask my photographer friends to critic my photo and give some opinions and suggestions with it. I will also ask for some advice and tips on how to improve and do better with my photography. It became my hobby.

As I reached Grade 12, we had different projects like film making, photo editing (we had our Photoshop class once), graphic designing (in our Media and Information Literacy class), and other stuff that requires creativity and art (even in creating PowerPoints!). These are stepping stones to my dream of pursuing art. Everything turned out well. I realized that I liked what I was doing. It became my passion. Photography is what I want to do. Doing art is what I want to pursue in college. From the part that I didn’t know that I was doing photography, I also didn’t realized that I was already doing art. “I don’t want to deal with numbers but what I want is to deal with art.”

TURTLE NECK LONG SLEEVE Miguel Granados

PHOTOGRAPHER Rocelle Santos

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PHOTOGRAPHY

JORDAN CASTRO

FEATURED MODEL EZEKIEL TAMAYO

STYLING JULIA WINGCO

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MAGAZINE , “ Unite, understanding a diverse society ” is one of ur class requirement. With Unité magazine, we were promoting a more egalitarian society regardless of their gender, religion, race, nationality, ethnical groups and social classes. It is my first production project to be assigned as the photographer of all the models. It became very challenging since we were only given a month of producing our magazine.

Unite magazine helped me a lot as I know I improved with the daily shoot that we had for the magazine and I applied my learnings in my own researching about how to do and improve myself in photography. It expanded my knowledge and gave me more techniques in post-processing as I was thinking outside the box as the post-process of each image depends on their classification from doing just my usual post-processing. After all, I really enjoyed doing the magazine even if it took a lot of time and effort.

DOUGLAS is a 73-minute film based on the 2007 novel, “Macarthur” by Bob Ong. It is a story of four friends living in a slum community, facing the problem of poverty that is happening to the Filipinos in reality. It depicts the struggle of the Filipino youth today making drugs and vices as a solution to their problems. It is also depicts the problem of employment, education, the economical and social status and family relations, showing how these problems can affect, give impact and changes to a person, especially in a young age.

Douglas was produced and served as our finals for our subject, Contemporary Arts. I was one of the cinematographers and editors. I realized that I need to get out of my comfort zone in photography and learn about cinematography, and it turned out well. But still, I was taking photos—behind the scenes. In time of producing this film, it was stressing since we also have our project in other subjects such as making museum vlogs and research papers. As a result, our schedule is conflict. But still, the film was a success and turned out very good, even if there were still flaws seen in the film. I learned many things about film with Douglas.

DOUGLAS

In photo: Actors with the director and cinematographer (from left to right) Paul Pelayo, Arlou Tolentino, Ruffy Burlasa, Alvin Tavera, Aldrin Astronomo, Jayson Demafiles, Ignacio Ilagan and Chiarra Montilla.

PHOTOGRAPHER

Eu Cabusas

PHOTOGRAPHER

Eu Cabusas

MARK EURENZ CABUSAS is 25 years old, studied Multimedia Arts in Mapua University at Intramuros. He is currently working as a Post Production Artist for Autodata Solutions. In his work, it includes photographing a lot of automobiles in the US and Canada, attaching metadata to all of the images and producing them before submission to clients. Eu is part of the post production team and also worked as a freelance photographer in the past mainly hired for corporate events, weddings, debuts, baptisms etc. He says that he still a newbie in the art industry despite of the career and education.

Eu got into photography when he got his first DSLR back in 2011 for his photography class and since then, he focused himself on shooting portraits, looking for inspos and coming up with original concepts. He don’t have a style he can call his own, and yet to find his niche in photography. He is still waiting for his work called Blow to be featured as he submitted a set for Sticks and Stones. It was his first foray into nude photography.

Eu served as my mentor in doing photography. He became my adviser and consultant when it comes to my shots. With that, Eu helped me by his tips on what to do and what not to do. He is the person I’ve asked how was my first shot and what about it and he recommended learning the basics of photography.

inspiration: eu cabusas

EARL JAYNUS GUZMAN

EARL JAYNUS GUZMAN is an instructor in Polytechnic University of the Philippines and a copywriter. He is 31 years old. He only discovered photography out of boredom, when he was accompanying a group of Catholic relatives during their Visita Iglesia and since he wasn’t one, he would just usually wait outside the church and roam around. Out of boredom, he took snaps using his phone of the churches they’ve been in, the surrounding area, and the people.

In graphic designing, his job as a copywriter exposed him to the industry. Since his work is on ads and marketing materials, he had to practice some degree of art direction in his line of work. He also worked with lots of designers and artists and these contributed to his exposure to graphic design.

Earl’s styles in photography can be described as spontaneous, candid and mundane. It is not in his like capturing landscapes. He focuses on mundane; things that usually take for granted and try to find something beautiful in the banality of life. Most of the time, he shoot in black and white like the street photographers of old. For graphic design, he is a fan of minimalist designs, since most of his work revolve around designing presentations and decks and these creations are subdued, simple and concise. If a simple design can communicate what he wants with impact, then that is what he’d do.

Sir Earl was my professor in Media Information Literacy when I was in Grade 12. Our class is amazed with him since his powerpoint presentations were artsy but simple. When it comes to graphic designing, I consult him and he will suggest some fonts and color palettes. Sir Earl is very kind and approachable since also motivates me with multimedia arts. Sir Earl is one of the few people that knows art that I am inspired to do more.

PHOTOGRAPHER

Earl Guzman