Contributors / July 2018 (Issue 40: Writing the Philippines)


Xyza Cruz Bacani
ImageXyza Cruz Bacani (b.1987) is a Filipino street and documentary photographer based in Hong Kong. Having worked as a second-generation migrant domestic worker in the city, she used photography to raise awareness about under-reported stories, focusing on the intersections of labour and human rights. She is a Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellow 2015, and she has exhibited her work worldwide, won awards in photography and is the recipient of a resolution passed by the Philippines House of Representatives in her honour, HR No. 1969. Bacani is the recipient of grants from the WMA Commission, the Pulitzer Center, and Open Society Foundation Moving Walls 2017, she is one of the BBC's 100 Women of the World 2015, 30 Under 30 Women Photographers 2016, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2016, and a Fujifilm Ambassador. [Photography]

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