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JOJIE ALCANTARA
Photojournalist, Artist, Events Host
Lifestyle and Travel Columnist, SunStar Davao

JOJIE ALCANTARA is an artist, writer and photographer who dabbles between photography and the arts. Armed with her Canon DSLR camera, dental floss and asthma inhaler, she discovers and documents exciting, unheard of places in her quest for promoting the islands of the Philippines, particularly Mindanao. Her passion for travel and photography has brought her to places around Asia but her most rewarding trips were the unknown islands in her country where she encounters enchanting places, queer folks, strange rituals and suspicious, inedible-looking food.

On normal, antisocial days, she stays in her room, post-processing images, designing webs, artworks and promotional materials for clients, updating photoblogs, while socializing on Facebook. These are her quiet, productive moments.

On her sunny, gregarious, vain self, she’s up on her toes organizing activities, hosting weddings and big events, making TV appearances and bonding with people. She also shares her skills by conducting art, creative writing, photography and photoshop workshops.

On her wildly wicked moments, however, she is away on some far off adventure where any woman thinks twice to venture. Her personal advocacy is to promote the beautiful islands of the Philippines, and in particular Mindanao and her beloved Davao. Her images and stories are featured in her lifestyle column in SunStar Davao (running for 15 years now), national and international publications.

In 2006, she had her 15 minutes of fame globally among Pinoys when her collection of funny signs catapulted around the cyberhighway, where national TV networks (Mel & Joey, Boy & Kris, and Lucy Torres’ Gomez talk show) caught on. She is preparing to launch her new unpublished set soon.

For random trivia, she has an unbelievable collection of Asian horror films (loves to watch at midnight), Spongebob stuff, and Michael Jackson memorabilia. On top of that she's had 11 international award winning photos, several art and photo exhibits, 6 dogs, 5 TV commercials, 4 target shooting trophies, 3 kids, 2 TV shows, 1 newspaper column…and a partridge in a pear tree.

She accepts commissioned projects on a case to case basis.

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