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We Are Like Air 活著如風

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+ We Are Like Air 活著如風 Author Xyza Cruz Bacani | Bilingual Book Award-winning photographer Xyza Cruz Bacani tells the tale of her mother, a Filipino domestic helper who has spent half of her life in Hong Kong. Also featuring the stories of other female migrant workers, this compilation of Bacani’s characteristic black-and-white photographs offers a poignant account of their life away from home and reveals a lesser-known side of Hong Kong beyond the city’s skyscrapers and mega malls. In this book, Bacani, who used to be a domestic worker herself, reclaims the story of the migrant worker that has been told countless times by others. This time around, she is telling their own story – not as victims but as champions who have overcome the many hardships life has tossed at them as they leave their families behind in their home country. The book portrays the experience of millions of mothers, daughters and families whose lives have been disrupted by migration. “We Are Like Air” because migrant workers are often treated like air, invisible but important. Genre : Photography Language : English and Chinese Author : Xyza Cruz Bacani Number of Pages : ~250 pages, 150+ photographs Book Dimension : 210w X 248h mm Printing : Paperback, Colors ISBN : 978-988-14231-5-3 Publisher : WE Press Co. Ltd. 香港人出版 Publication date : Dec, 2018 RECOMMENDATION “Xyza Cruz Bacani shines the light on the inner lives of migrant domestic workers and makes a plea for recognising not just their rights but their humanity. True, these women have suffered but they have also exercised some agency over their lives. The choices they have made prop up the economies of their home countries. By doing domestic work abroad, they provide other women opportunities for work and leisure. On both sides of the migration divide, they prop up families with their labour and their love.” Sheila S. Coronel Dean of Academic Affairs Director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University AUTHOR Xyza Cruz Bacani Xyza Cruz Bacani (b.1987) is a Filipina Street and Documentary photographer based in Hong Kong 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 a Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellow in 2015, has exhibited worldwide, and won awards in photography. She is also the recipient of a resolution (HR No.1969) that was passed by the Philippines House of Representatives in her honour. Xyza is one of Asia Society’s Asia 21 Young Leaders in 2018, the WMA Commission grantee in 2017, a Pulitzer Center grantee, and an Open Society Moving Walls grantee in 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. 活著如風 We Are Like Air 作者 Xyza Cruz Bacani | 中英雙語 Xyza Cruz Bacani – 一位曾多次獲得國際獎項的攝影師，但她曾經也是一位外傭。 Xyza Cruz Bacani 和香港結下不解緣，她家裡的三代也在香港工作，這令她對外傭離鄉工作，別有一番感受。 Xyza 以她標誌性的黑白照片，記錄這群女性如何為香港寫下幕幕動人故事。 家庭傭工出身的Xyza Cruz Bacani，以鏡頭反客為主，用相片刻劃外傭的共同經歷。在鏡頭下，Xyza細意捕捉外傭的工作情況、生活點滴，部分更在她們僱主的居所中拍攝，每一張相片都充滿真實感。每輯相片都有一個關於離鄉別井，為家人、為生活掙扎的故事，每個故事有喜有悲，透過本書，讀者可以更加了解這群為本地家庭付出良多，卻是「活著如風」的隱形強人。 系列： 攝影集 語言： 英文 及 中⽂ 作者： Xyza Cruz Bacani 頁數： 約 250頁，超過150 幅作品 尺寸： 210w X 248h mm 印刷： 平裝，彩色 ISBN： 978-988-14231-5-3 出版社： 香港人出版 WE Press Co. Ltd. 出版日期： 2018年 12月 名人推薦 「Xyza Cruz Bacani 的鏡頭聚焦於外籍家庭傭工的喜怒哀樂，她向世界提出無聲的訴求，為外傭爭取生而為人的權利和尊嚴。這些女子雖生活受壓，但亦藉此機會踏上自立自主的旅途。她們選擇離鄉背井，不但撐起了國家的經濟，亦為其他女性換來工作機會和喘息的空間。這些不斷在家庭和異鄉之間來回奔走的勞動者，靠着一雙手和對家人的愛,灌溉着一個又一個的家庭。」 Sheila S. Coronel 美國哥倫比亞大學新聞系研究院Stabile 調查報導中心總監，學術事務院院長 作者介紹 Xyza Cruz Bacani Xyza Cruz Bacani 出生於1987年,是一名菲律賓籍的駐港街頭紀實攝影師。作為一位曾於香港工作接近十年的第二代外籍家庭傭工，她特別關注移民及人權的議題，希望能藉攝影作品令更多人關心外傭的處境。 她更獲菲律賓眾議院通過決議案(HR No.1969)以特別表揚她在攝影方面的卓越成就。Xyza曾獲各項殊榮，包括: 被選為2018年度亞洲協會「亞洲21青年領袖」、2016年「30位30歲以下出色女攝影師」(30 Under 30 Women Photographers) 、《福布斯》「30位30歲以下亞洲菁英」(30 Under 30 Asia)、2015年BBC 全球百大女性及FUJIFILM大使。她亦是WMA 2016/17年度委託計劃、普立茲中心資助計劃(2017)及開放社會基金會「移除高牆」項目(2017)得主。
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