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Chef Margarita Fores for Education

Chef Margarita Fores runs Whitespace on Pasong Tamo, Makati, and gives to benefit indigent culinary students and teachers through Chefs for Education 2011.

Chef Rob Penzon gives to Chefs For Education 2011, a plush benefit dinner to raise funds for indigent culinary students and teachers.

The BPO industry in the Philippines is so much richer with actresses/models like Farrah Florer working in it.

Chef Colin McKay pours out for Chefs for Education 2011, for the benefit of indigent culinary students and teachers.

Piolo Pascual is the country's most celebrated actor in the Philippines today. Writing about Piolo and photographing him for the book remains to be one of the most sterling experiences in my profession. Being a true friend took on a new meaning, as this very private actor opened his home to me...i rummaged through his scrapbooks from childhood, invaded his fridge, and even followed him to bed and the bathroom. I wanted people to see how real this star is. And seeing that reality only added to his mystery, it seems. It was an honor and a pleasure I wanted to share with every reader of PIOLO:BELIEVING (A PICTORIAL BIOGRAPHY OF PIOLO PASCUAL). There were thousand of pictures, only 170 plus could be included in the book. Hopefully, I can post more of what I've taken of Piolo, here in this blog -- spicy and interesting snaps that didn't make it to print. Hope y'all stick around for another doze of PIOLO pics.

I don't quite remember how Derek looked like when he had a full head of hair. I thought about this when I shot Derek for Belo Man in 2012. The star of TV5's Kidlat really takes good care of his skin and his physique obviously.

For three years, I have photographed actress and supermodel Angel Aquino for The Spa, a premier chain of luxurious spas in the Philippines, and at each time, I am mesmerized by just how gloriously beautiful a Filipina can be. Practically speechless, I would go through twenty minutes of shooting her with hardly a word of direction coming from me -- the woman knows exactly what to do and say with her expressions. She is to me, the quintessence of what a model should be.

ABS-CBN News Channel celebrity Cedric Mendoza with wife Joy and the entire family, complete with beautiful grandparents. Photographed in January 2104 for Cetaphil (Galderma).