Young GenSan fotog, Leonard Pe featured in Manila Bulletin
In one of my earlier posts this year, I featured Leonard Pe, a talented young general who was mounting his first solo photo exhibit dubbed as “Earthscapes“ at the City Hall lobby, in celebration of the Earth Day.
During that time, one of his works, won the Silver Award in the 2007 Project Clean Water Photography Contest of the Greenpeace Southeast Asia making the exhibit even more signifact.
Just very recently, Leonard was once again in the news when no less than the Manila Bulletin published a 4-page spread about his works and his passion for photography in its Picture Perfect Section, in its October 14 edition.
Written by Yugel Losorata, the article was entitled “A GenSan pride“.
Here is an excerpt:
One artistic gem is Leonard Pe, born and raised in General Santos City. His photographs of nature capturing the sceneries within the area has been his way of saying there is more to see in his hometown and that the “Tuna Capital of the Philippines” showcases more than being associated to the admired “National Fist”.
Below is the scanned picture of the front page of the newspaper insert.
FRONT PAGE
Here are two of Leonard’s photographs featured in the spread.
“Bahay Kubo”. This photo was shot in a field in Barangay Tambler.
“Siquijor”.
To read the full Manila Bulletin article, please CLICK HERE.
Congratulations Leonard! Bariles Republic and am sure, the whole of GenSan are very proud of you. Now for those one-on-one photography lessons you promised, I am more than ready. 
For more of Leonard Pe’s work, please CLICK HERE
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- About Bariles
- An Art Exhibit of the early Settlement Days of the Pioneers of GenSan
- Earthscapes: A one-man photo exhibit for EARTH DAY 2008
- Two young generals win top plum at CCP Dance Festival
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Bariles is a Filipino word for “Tuna”, the primary source of income of the people of General Santos City which hosts 6 of the Philippines’ 8 tuna canneries and more than 80% of its tuna processing plants.
jec Says:
great shots…
Posted on October 21st, 2008 at 7:19 PM
gensanite Says:
galeng ng pagkakakuha ng scenes… nindot ang mga photos… very impressing… hope we can see more of his work… cheers!!!
Posted on October 21st, 2008 at 8:20 PM
orman Says:
congrats leonard… your passion for photography has indeed brought you to greater heights… stay humble… and godspeed!
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Posted on October 21st, 2008 at 8:50 PM
jasper0127 Says:
Wow impressive congratulations Leonard Astig grabe.
Posted on October 22nd, 2008 at 8:07 AM
Jinky Says:
wow, ang galing! worldclass na worldclass ang dating. . .
Congrats Sir Leonard Pe!
Posted on October 22nd, 2008 at 8:47 AM
Leonard Pe Says:
thanks guys. more of my pics in the links below:
http://www.leonardpe.com
and
http://multiply.leonardpe.com
Enjoy! Magandang Gensan sa lahat
Posted on October 22nd, 2008 at 9:23 AM
Leonard Pe Says:
thanks kuya Avel for “featuring” my feature in your site! hehe
I’ll be conducting a basic photography seminar before the year ends. I’ll keep you updated.
thanks again
Posted on October 22nd, 2008 at 9:33 AM
Gilbertyaptan Says:
@Leonard Pe – WOW! parang paintings ang shots mo! they remind me of a film I once saw – Barry Lyndon. Dapat magkaroon ka ng exhibit dito sa gensan.
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Posted on October 22nd, 2008 at 12:06 PM
Leonard Pe Says:
@Gilbertyaptan
Thanks, and yes, I’m planning to do another exhibit next year
Posted on October 22nd, 2008 at 12:48 PM
rodner/pixar/rodney Says:
WOW MGANDA ANG PAGKAKUHA// PARANG HINDI TLGA CYA SA MINDANAO..
Posted on October 22nd, 2008 at 5:05 PM
aab Says:
Congratulations to Leonard Pe!! I truly felt very proud knowing General Santos City in now home of ambitious and highly skilled young “Generals”!! We’re not just hard working people but also the finest in the country.
To L Pe: maybe you can share some of your great achievements to a future museum?
or is it in existence without my knowing/knowledge?
To Orman and Avel: how about starting a GenSan museum…talk to your Kuya Jun?
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 at 12:39 AM
Leonard Pe Says:
@aab
Thank you po
About the museum.. there’s an on going plan of converting the old city hall building into the city’s official museum
The newly formed General Santos City Culture and the Arts Council (GSCCAC) is part of pushing this plan to reality.
At present, NDDU is housing the GSC museum.
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 at 9:15 AM
nida Says:
ay thats good!! converting the old city hall into the official museo de dadiangas. good idea indeed!!.:-)
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Jasper Says:
Bravisimo!!!Ang galing ng “Bahay Kubo” scene. My interpretation to it is that sa kabila ng kahirapan sa buhay (kubo+cloudy skies) is that there is still HOPE (sunshine). Ang galing!!!Bow po ako sa iyo Mr. Pe. Aba at sa ganda, at sa pagka-dramatic ng pagkakakuha ng larawan ay akalain mong kuha ito sa Ireland. hehehe
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Kritiko Says:
ang kulang na nlng is ang signature banner nya…….
Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 12:56 AM
Kritiko Says:
unsay DEVIANT name ni sir leonard?
Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 1:01 AM
aab Says:
@Leonard Pe –
Great! Impressive move. Surely it will be on our itinerary the next time we’re home. It will be a splendid venue for you to market your work, as museum often have a souvenir shops as well as collectable works.More power to you.
Posted on October 28th, 2008 at 10:21 AM
orman Says:
@Leonard Pe – please let me know about the basic seminar. sasali talaga ako nard…
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Posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 8:25 AM
orman Says:
@aab – as leonard mentioned the old city building will become the city museum. we recently organized the gsc culture and the arts council (thru the auspices of cemcdo) so hopefully everything will start moving next year…
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Posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 8:27 AM
orman Says:
@Leonard Pe – leonard our plans to do a mini-exhibit inside asia united bank is still on. planuhin lang natin…
btw leonard i heard about your accident in cebu. glad you’re okay! be careful next time!
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Posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 8:29 AM
raincindy Says:
Ang galing pagka capture =) Keep up the goodwork dude!
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Posted on November 5th, 2008 at 7:01 PM
Leonard Pe Says:
@orman
i’m just updating and adding more works sa collection ko, we’ll get the exhibit up and running soon. medyo busy lang sa Pasko sa Gensan.
oh, about my head accident.. yes, im okay now and healed
matigas pa rin ang ulo hehe
Posted on November 18th, 2008 at 11:52 PM
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