An up-and-coming talent and an established one in the field&mdash;L&rsquo;Officiel brings these two photographers together in a learning experience.

<h3 style="text-align: center;">What to you is the female gaze?</h3>

"When we look at things, objects, people, like instead of looking at it kung ano yung pwede natin makuha from them, we just honor its existence, women's existence&hellip; we capture it."
- Andy Genota

Photography by Andy Genota

"Looking beyond the surface. I guess. I'm attracted to beauty. That's why I'm in this industry of beauty and fashion and commercial. But I think female gaze is more than just that. In relation to what I do, which is taking pictures, more than hoping to make the subjects feel beautiful as I take pictures of them. I also hope that when the viewers see the portraits that I took, I hope that they would see power and grace."
- Charisma Lico

Photography by Charisma Lico

<h3 style="text-align: center;">On representation in the industry</h3>

"It matters to me that they genuinely like my outputs and what do. Hindi lang dahil getting me just because I'm a female.Because before, noong nagsa-start pa lang ako, I would get comments na dadating ako sa shoot and then, oh babae pala yung photographer. It's like 10 years ago, hindi pa ganoon kadami yung female photographers."
- Charisma Lico

"I think it's very important to include women kasi we take up space. And it's important for younger generation to see that there's a path like this and we exist.Kasi growing up, with my background, my family, parang walang masyadong creatives sa amin. So parang, I had to make my own path. So it would have been nicer if I saw na ang dami din palang same na female photographers growing up."
- Andy Genota

Women on Women: Andy Genota and Charisma Lico

Women on Women: Andy Genota and Charisma Lico

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