Dubai-based Michael Son Galligues, chefmico to his Facebook friends and a graduate of FPPF Basic Photography Batch 8 of 2008, was the featured photographer in Manila Bulletin’s Picture Perfect section, published last March 23, 2010. Michael is currently acting chef d’cuisine of Sumibiya restaurant in Dubai and a member of the Middle East Snipers (MES) photographers club in the Gulf Region.
As chef d’cuisine, Michael is in charge of the restaurant’s whole operation, the manning of staff, menu planning and costing, inventory and stock management. He has earned his spurs in Bases des Artes Culinaires, a globally recognized culinary course. Two years back, he participated in the World Association of Chef Society Dubai. He was a finalist at one contest called the George Foreman Grill Cookoff Showdown in 2007.
As photographer, his works have been featured in three billboards promoting the upscale Radisson Blu Hotel in Dubai. Michael says he was inspired to take up photography in 2004 after seeing a photo collage of the Manila Post Office created by the talented Rina Falcis, who later became chairperson of PhotoWorld Asia 2009. In 2008, Michael went through a photography workshop under the Federation of Philippine Photographers Foundation, FPPF. Michael’s images have graced magazines in Dubai like Gulf Gourmet and Time Out Dubai.
He says, “A photograph is effective if people looking at it feel the same satisfaction as when you put your eye on the viewfinder.”
Photos by Michael Son Galligues, courtesy of Picture Perfect, Manila Bulletin.
