Froilan Gallardo has been covering Mindanao Island in Southern Philippine since 1988. He has covered the wars between the Philippine government, the Moro rebels and the communist guerillas. Gallardo is a member of www.mindanews.com, a daily news website ran by a cooperative of journalists based in Mindanao, Philippines.
In 2006, Konrad Adeneur Foundation, the World Press Photo and Ateneo de Manila University awarded Gallardo a scholarship for the Diploma in Photojournalism.