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Eros Xerxes L. Astillero has been doing Professional Wedding Photography since 1987 at the age of 27. Photography has been his hobby at the young age of 12, having his own black & white darkroom at home which still exist even at this time.

His passion & love for photography as an art is in his blood, his great grandfather is the late Gregorio Melchor Alindao Paredes, the first Filipino Pensionado who studied industrial arts at Pennsylvania School of Arts & Trade in the United States Of America (as recorded in Philippine History books). His industrial works of art can still be seen in Pensylvania U.S.A. In his time industrial arts was the equivalent of engineering, architecture and fine arts. During his tenure as one of the department heads of the Bureau of Public Works and Communications he designed the Philippine Post Office, the Philippine Women's College (now Philippine women's University), the former congress, and the former senate buildings.

During the Japanese occupation Gregorio Melchor Alindao Paredes resisted to work under the Japanese Government being a U.S. trained educator, His late grandmother Sarah Paz Paredes Astillero y. Castro the cousin of educator Helena Tirona Benitez was a painter, an alumni of Philippine Women's University. It is also notable to say that the late Architect Achilles Paredes, the former professor and Dean of Mapua Institute of Technology (now Mapua University) and former President of the Architects League of the Philippines is the younger brother of Sarah Paz Paredes Astillero y. Castro. At least ten notable architects and artists belongs to their present generation.

Now, Eros Photography has grown not just as a company but as a family business. Eros at his prime age of 46 blessed with a 20/20 vision still works as a professional photographer, His four sons Alliz Xerxes, Jernin Alros, Ros Jeral & Eros Xerxes D. are now the main photographers, videographers & digital artist of Eros Photography, All trained at the age of 13 now they are all professionals in the field of Digital Multimedia Productions.