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Xyza Bacani
New York, NY
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 intersections of migration, climate change and human rights. She is one of the Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellows in 2015, has exhibited worldwide, and won awards in photography.
She is also the recipient of a resolution passed by the Philippines House of Representatives in her honour, HR No.1969. Xyza is 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.
![A portrait of Lala Abalon inside the kitchen of their family-owned restaurant in Bulacan, Philippines, on June 08, 2021.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-08/xcb_01.jpg?itok=kqByIlkK)
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![Volunteers pack vegetables at the village center for distribution to the entire village under quarantine, March 30, 2020.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-08/xcb_04.jpg?itok=41DwHx3W)
![Irwin Zarate laughs as a chicken flaps its wings. Mr. Zarate is the chicken care taker in Bambang Integrated Agri-Tourism and Learning Site in Nueva Vizcaya.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-08/xcb_05.jpg?itok=GAxsfZEK)
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![Nelia Cubillo (middle), Director for Operations of Sitel Philippines Corporation, checks on call center agents at work in Pasig City, Metro Manila, March 15, 2021.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-08/xcb_16.jpg?itok=InammdeJ)
![Call center agents of Sitel Philippines Corporation working in Pasig City, Metro Manila, on March 15, 2021.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-08/xcb_17.jpg?itok=4ZNsFXoE)
![Call center agents of Sitel Philippines Corporation working in Pasig City, Metro Manila, on March 15, 2021.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-08/xcb_18.jpg?itok=SwFa5gCP)
![A portrait of Gloria Hernandez outside her home in Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines, on July 14, 2021.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-08/xcb_19.jpg?itok=jOS-05Xr)
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![Dr. Agnes Bernabe and her team pull the baby out during a cesarean operation in Nueva Vizcaya Provincial Hospital, August 18, 2020.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-08/xcb_22.jpg?itok=AZ9giZW_)
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![Racma Manalondong, an 80-year-old refugee, read the Quoran inside the camp.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-08/xcb_25.jpg?itok=a5_3m3Jq)
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![Sahaya Mahammud fixes her daughter Nadzra's hair while Officer Lugo rests in their home, in Philippines, March 4, 2016.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-08/xcb_28.jpg?itok=vLIb_4rB)
![Jaybie Pagirigan, 39, Filipina domestic worker, going downhill in Siu Ma Shan, Hong Kong, March 17, 2019.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-08/xcb_29.jpg?itok=OS_mhLvD)
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![Red Light District](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-08/xcb_31.jpg?itok=uj7RSbKa)
![Woman Stepping Outside](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-08/xcb_32.jpg?itok=oTi-aAB4)
![Portrait of Alejandro Ramilloza II, a nurse on duty at the quarantine facility in Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2023-08/xcb_24.jpg?itok=3rwfcJrk)
![Barbo children bathing under a cargo truck in Smokey Mountain.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2024-02/xcb-1.jpg?itok=Mw4RwTLJ)
![Joselito hands over the 1000 gift check he recieved from Project Ugnayan.](https://reduxpictures.com/sites/redux/files/styles/max_width_600px/public/2024-02/xcb-4.jpg?itok=kuQc9lvX)
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