{"id":67655,"date":"2020-09-28T22:55:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T14:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=67655"},"modified":"2022-09-28T22:56:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:56:13","slug":"a-nanny-with-a-camera-xyza-cruz-bacani-one-of-bbcs-100-women-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2020\/09\/28\/a-nanny-with-a-camera-xyza-cruz-bacani-one-of-bbcs-100-women-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A nanny with a camera: Xyza Cruz-Bacani, one of BBC\u2019s 100 Women of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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XYZA CRUZ-BACANI. Nanny turned photographer. Photo by Niko Villegas<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In 2014, a very inspiring story of a certain Xyza Cruz-Bacani surfaced the internet as a Filipina who just recently had her photographs and narrative featured in The New York Times. At first, you\u2019d think that she may be just one photographer who had all the luck in the world to afford luxury cameras but truth is, she didn\u2019t. She was a domestic helper in Hong Kong who has a keen interest in photography.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Xyza\u2019s black and white photography style<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Before she got recognition for her works, Xyza was 18 and a domestic helper at a well-off family in Hong Kong, with her mother. As the eldest of three, Xyza studied nursing but left to fund her siblings\u2019 education. Although she was very interested in photography in college, she didn\u2019t have the means to afford a camera. She only got to purchase her first camera, a Nikon D90, as a loan from her employer where she started taking casual photographs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Xyza\u2019s Humans of Makati exhibit<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Xyza loved to do street photography in Hong Kong. Her works are mostly black and white with lowlight as a style. All over the city, she waits for a timing to photograph the city\u2019s everyday life sometimes using her phone, and sees photography as a universal language that can speak without needing words. It was Rick Rocamora, an award-winning lensman in the Philippines, who discovered Xyza. It was in a Filipino Photography Facebook group where she first saw Xyza\u2019s work and thought that \u201cshe was just another rich kid who had nothing else to do but shoot.\u201d Little did he know that Xyza used to work as a helper and that photography was just her passion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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More of Xyza\u2019s works<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Fast forward to present, Xyza has already achieved a lot at a very young age. At 28, she was listed as BBC\u2019s 100 Women of the World in 2015. She is also listed at Photo Boite\u2019s 30 under 30 Women Photographers, Forbes\u201930 under 30 Asia 2016, and one of the Magnum Foundation Human Rights Fellows in 2015, and a Fujifilm Ambassador.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, she holds her own exhibit at different countries including in the Philippines. She has also published her works in different international publications and was featured in various media outfits in the world. Xyza is still a full-fledged photographer who continues to inspire young people to never forget their passion because there\u2019s always a chance to make it big in the world as long as you pursue your dreams.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photos are grabbed from Xyza Cruz-Bacani\u2019s Facebook account<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/18\/taking-care-of-people-and-pictures-in-hong-kong\/?_r=0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2015\/01\/06\/asia\/domestic-worker-photographer\/<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/story\/457097\/lifestyle\/artandculture\/pinay-maid-xyza-cruz-bacani-captures-dreams-through-photography<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.xyzacruzbacani.com\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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XYZA CRUZ-BACANI. Nanny turned photographer. Photo by Niko Villegas In 2014, a very inspiring story of a certain Xyza Cruz-Bacani surfaced the internet as a Filipina who just recently had her photographs and narrative featured in The New York Times. At first, you\u2019d think that she may be just one photographer who had all the luck in the world to afford luxury cameras but truth is, she didn\u2019t. She was a domestic helper in Hong Kong who has a keen interest in photography. Xyza\u2019s black and white photography style Before she got recognition for her works, Xyza was 18 and a domestic helper at a well-off family in Hong Kong, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":67656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-story"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/09\/xcb4-e1470295349955.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67657,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67655\/revisions\/67657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}