Federation of Philippine Photographers Foundation

Photographer, dealer, client. Different needs, but reliant on one another. Which is the reason the FPPF was created: to help the industry work together, not against one another.

The FPPF is a non-stock, non-profit organization organized in 1987, at a time when photography in the country was coming of age. Many people were taking up photography as a pastime or profession, and camera technology was making great strides.

Everybody wanted to be a step ahead of the others—individuals, professional and amateur clubs, dealers.

Enter FPPF. A group of photographers saw beyond the competition, beyond the one-upmanship. What was needed was a rallying point, an undertaking that did not promote its own ends, but those of the industry.

By providing the right leadership, the FPPF has been received by the industry as a unifying organization around which it could rally, with which it could work, and from which it could all benefit. And all we mean everybody—not just any particular segment of the industry.

The FPPF has the support of both the seller and the buyer—the manufacturers and dealers on one hand, and the photographers on the other.

It has channeled this support into such activities as photo contests, book projects, tourism and travel events, even socially relevant projects like aiding the plight of senior citizens, the handicapped, and the lahar victims of Mt. Pinatubo.

It organized what would eventually grow into the largest and longest-running photo convention and trade show in the country, Photoworld Asia (formerly Photoworld Manila).