Biography
Achilles Aeson Anthony T. Baldevia is a 24-year-old graphic artist, photographer, photojournalist, and blogger. He graduated with a two degrees, Communication and Marketing Management at the University of St. La Salle, Bacolod City. He was the Editor-in Chief of The La Salle Yearbook 2014, and one of the founding members of The Dream Project PH who serves as a full-time visual and graphic artist in charge of the community’s visual identity system and designs.
He has always been interested in photography, but only decided to pursue it at the age of 14 when the Provincial Environmental Week Photo Competition chose his photo as 2nd runner up in 2007 against entries coming from competing professionals. From then on, he garnered more academic, extra- and co-curricular honors and awards, locally and nationally, and has travelled various places, here and abroad, as a student communicator and marketer, and a passionate photographer.
Aside from being a consistent Dean’s Listee, he placed fourth (4th) in the overall Mass Communications Screening in 2010. It was also in the same year that he bagged Journ.ph’s Best Campus Blog Photographer for his work at The LEAD Online, the official student publication of the USLS Mass Communications students.
In 2011, his academic portfolio won Best Portfolio in Photography in his photography class and later, became the recipient of the Mass Communications Society’s BILIB Awards for the same category. In the same year, he represented the university to the College Press Conference (COPRE) and placed first (1st) in the Journalism category. Also in the same year, he bagged the top prize at Boracay Shoot and Run Photo Contest.
In 2012, his group’s advertising campaign was recognized as National 6th Placer at PANAnaw Youth Advertising Contest of the Philippine Association of National Advertisers (PANA). In the same year, his photo entry was included in Canon Photo Marathon’s Top 30 Images for their Bacolod Leg.
For three consecutive years, in 2012 (27th) and 2013 (28th), 2014 (29th) his photos topped in Photography at the Annual Literary and Visual Arts Awards, organized by De La Salle University – Manila and Malate Literary Folio.
He made history in the university for being the first and only four-time recipient of the Corps d’ Elite Outstanding Student Award in the Filed of Visual Arts for four consecutive years (2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014).
In 2013, he became the university’s official student delegate to the 5th Group Study Exchange to Belgium. His symmetrically structural shot of Bacolod City’s New Government Center made it as one of the Grand National Finalists of PAGCOR’s First National Photography Competition, selected from more than 5,500 entries nationwide. Contest selection is still going on.
In 2014, he was featured as an Up-and-coming Photographer by I-Mag Photography Magazine, an established magazine distributed nationwide dedicated for photography enthusiasts. He also had worked with various companies such as SMART Communications, MILO, Nestle, Proctor and Gamble, among others as a freelance photographer for their events.
He is a contributing photographer to I-Mag Photography Magazine, Cruising Travel Magazine, Visayan Daily Star, Operation Smile International among others.
