In 1950, Ramona Gonzales Tejero had a photography studio constructed for her first cousin, Aurelio Benedicto Gonzales Teruel at Sta. Lucia Street, (now Tejero Street). The studio had a "dark room" for developing the photographs. The props included an L-shaped bench, painted like a garden, and a column-likeposing stand or pedestal for picture taking. The background of the studio was a dark-green "telon" that hung from the ceiling like the curtain of a theater stage. He fixed his old model camera on a tripod when taking pictures.
Long before the colored photographs was invented Aurelio Teruel had already colored some of his photographs through air-brush painting method.
In the early 50's, Aurelio Teruel named his studio, "Helen's Studio" taken from the name of his wife, Elena. In the late 60's, he changed the name of his studio to "LING'S STUDIO" because he was popularly known to the people as "Liling nga manogkodak". This time he also used a modern mobile snapshot camera, to go with the trend of the time.
Aurelio Teruel played an important role in the history of Tigbauan because as a "retratista" o "manogkodak", as he was commonly called, he documented and immortalizes the significant events and memories, happy or sad, in the lives of the Tigbauanons. He was also designated by the local government as the official photographer of the COMELEC, and also to take pictures of the residents for their "cedulas" His community serviceable profession ended when he passed away in 2008 at the age of 91.
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