Xyza Cruz Bacani
Photographer @ ReduxPictures / Based in New York
Xyza Cruz Bacani (b.1987) is a Filipina author and photographer based in New York who uses her work to raise awareness about under-reported stories. Having worked as a second-generation domestic worker in Hong Kong for almost a...
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Focus:
Photographer, Photojournalist, Journalist, Photography, Portraiture, Freelance
Skills:
Research, Art Direction, Photojournalism
About
Available in: New York
Focused on:
Photographer, Photojournalist, Journalist, Photography, Portraiture, Freelance
Skilled at:
Research, Art Direction, Photojournalism
Coverage Regions:
Asia Oceania
Languages Spoken: English, Tagalog, Cantonese
Years of experience: 6 to 10
Xyza Cruz Bacani (b.1987) is a Filipina author and photographer based in New York who uses her work to raise awareness about under-reported stories.
Having worked as a second-generation domestic worker in Hong Kong for almost a decade, she is particularly interested in the intersection of labour migration and human rights. She is one of the Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellows in 2015, has exhibited worldwide, won awards in photography.
Xyza is also the recipient of a resolution passed by the Philippines House of Representatives in her honor, HR No.1969. She is awarded The Outstanding Women of the Nation’s Service in the field of Humanities, one of the Asia 21 Young Leaders (Class of 2018), the WMA Commission grantee in 2017, a Pulitzer Center and an Open Society Moving Walls 2017 grantee. 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 author of the book We Are Like Air.
Having worked as a second-generation domestic worker in Hong Kong for almost a decade, she is particularly interested in the intersection of labour migration and human rights. She is one of the Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellows in 2015, has exhibited worldwide, won awards in photography.
Xyza is also the recipient of a resolution passed by the Philippines House of Representatives in her honor, HR No.1969. She is awarded The Outstanding Women of the Nation’s Service in the field of Humanities, one of the Asia 21 Young Leaders (Class of 2018), the WMA Commission grantee in 2017, a Pulitzer Center and an Open Society Moving Walls 2017 grantee. 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 author of the book We Are Like Air.
Education
New York University