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Vicente Jaime “Veejay” Villafranca (b. 1982 Philippines) was amongst
seven Filipinos to be accepted in the first Asian documentary workshop
in the Angkor photography festival in Siem Reap, Cambodia. After
freelancing in 2006, he worked with Agence France Presse, Reuters,
World Picture Network and the United Nations IRIN news wire. His
long term-project about the lives of former gang members in one of Manila’s
dangerous slums, BASECO compound, garnered the 2008 Ian Parry
Scholarship grant in London. He is also the recipient of the 2007-2008
Asian Center for Journalism Photojournalism program in partnership
with the World Press Photo Foundation.

His work has been exhibited in
London, Lithuania, Hongkong, Phnom Pehn, France, Portugal, Turkey, Oslo and Manila.


His ongoing projects delve on Filipino faith and practices, the issue of
reserved space for ethnic tribes in the Philippines, and illegal refugees in Southeast
Asia apart from his project with the gangs and the continuously changing social and political landscape of his country, the Philippines.

Veejay is represented by Getty Global Assignments in London and Asia Motion in the Asian and French markets.