• Born, bred, based in Manila, Philippines.
  • Majored in Communication Arts from the Ateneo de Manila University.
  • Applied for the photo editor position at The Guidon, the school paper, so he could call dibs on college basketball games.
  • Worked for a really, really short time as a newspaper photographer. Exciting times.
  • Took a quickie film course in New York to feed his delusions of being a filmmaker.
  • First solo show: Carnival Photography (Lumiere Gallery, 2004).
  • Second solo show: Common Place (Lumiere Gallery, 2006). 
  • Soon after, Lumiere Gallery closed.
  • Wrote and directed Training (2008), a short film about a day in the life of two people who learn about connecting and making self-defining choices while working at a call center. 
  • It was seen by friends, family, and maybe one day, by people on the Internet.
  • With some really cool friends, he runs a magazine about traveling in the Philippines.
  • His work appears in other magazines and publications in the Philippines and abroad.
  • His commercial clients are among the country’s top companies. Top companies!
  • On his days off, he enjoys watching movies in the afternoons with senior citizens, or riding his bicycle.
  • You can email him for his portfolio, restaurant recommendations, and movie hot takes at: mignac@gmail.com

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