Xyza Cruz Bacani is a Filipina author and photographer who uses documentary-style photography to call attention to less visible, erased, and under-reported global events. Having worked as a second-generation domestic worker in Hong Kong for almost a decade, she has devoted an important part of her work in photography to subjects related to migrant labor in global capitalism. Bacani has also worked on a commission in the Philippines to capture the aftermath of contexts in crisis, including the siege of Marawi; a large town in the south of the country that was heavily bombarded by Duterte’s war on the ‘radicalization’ of Islam in the Mindanao region. Bacani has become an icon in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, operating beyond the fields of art and photography, as she is involved in social justice projects. Amongst her many accolades, the Philippines House of Representatives named the resolution HR No.1969, in her honor.