FilAm Photographer Exhibits Work at Ilocano Center in Queens

By Marivir R. Montebon

New York – On going until January 10, 2021 is “GOD Made, Man Made” photo exhibit of landscape and architecture by artist Carlos L. Esguerra at the Ilocano-American Center in Jamaica, Queens.

Esguerra is an awarded photographer who received a grant from the 2020 Queens Arts Fund through the Queens Council for the Arts. As an artist, he said he simply “reacts” to beauty when he sees and takes pictures using a simple digital camera with a long lens.

Olmstead Point. Yosemite National Park in California. Recipient of 2020 Merit Awards by the Spanish Peaks Council in Colorado, Silver Medal in 2017 Prix de la Photographie in Paris, and Gold Medal 2017 at the International Photography Awards in the Philippines.

The exhibit is presented by the Ilocano-American Association Inc. “This is our way to support Filipino artists at this time of the pandemic. We are very careful. But art is a way to nourish our soul in these trying times,” said lawyer Dulce Barangan, president of IAAI.

Esguerra and IAAI president Atty. Dulce Barangan. In photo is his work “Death Valley Dunes” which won Bronze Medal for nature-landscape category at International Photography Awards (Philippines, 2015) and at Prix de la Photographie (Paris, 2015).

The artist during the opening of the exhibit on December 20, 2020 with well-wishers (L-R) Ann Beck, Dr. Emilio Quines Jr., Atty. Dulce Barangan, Stevenson Van Derodar, and Myrna Santos.

The exhibit complies with the covid19 directives of the city with a limited number of guests only on Saturdays and Sundays till January 20, from 2-5PM. Part of the proceeds of the sales of prints will benefit the victims of the recent supertyphoons that hit the Philippines, Rolly and Ulysses.

The Ilocano-American Center is located at 185-14 Hillside Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432. # (Featured photo is Esguerra with his work Bantay Tower in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, Philippines.)

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