A multi-awarded photojournalist and editor of MindaNews will be guest speaker in a lecture organized by the Silliman University College of Mass Communication as part of its year-long 45th founding anniversary celebration.
Photojournalist Bobby Timonera will speak on the topic Shooting Mindanao: Up Close and Personal (A Photojournalist’s Life Experience) on Aug. 23, 10am at the Audio Visual Theater. The public is invited.
Timonera has been writing and taking photos about the conflict in Mindanao since 1987. In 1992, he moved to Manila from his hometown in Iligan, and was hired as news reporter of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He was also a contributor for BusinessWorld Online’s Mobile Media project. In 1997, Asiaweek picked one of his exclusive photos as “one of the most memorable pictures in Asia”.
In 1997, Timonera won a Catholic Mas Media Award for writing about the pork barrel. Two years later, he was awarded Inquirer Correspondent of the Year.
In 2001, he helped organize MindaNews, a cooperative of Mindanao-based journalists, of which he is vice chair and editor.
His new photobook Mindanao into the 21st Century which was launched last month, will be available after his talk for only P1,500. (Liam Lumogdang/SU Masscom)
