“Caring” Photographs: Xyza Cruz Bacani
By Billy Kung
In June, the New York Times’s “Lens” column featured a series of stunning images from Xyza Cruz Bacani. Bacani is a Filipino domestic worker helping a well-off family on Hong Kong Island, who, in her spare time, wanders the streets of Hong Kong taking photographs.
Bacani’s beautifully composed black-and-white images reveal, moment after moment, life on the bustling streets and narrow alleyways in an almost theatre-like fashion. Her keen perspective captures faces of the old and young, the foreign and local, with each frame conveying a unique story of its own. It's when looking at her photographs that we are reminded of how much we fail to see.
