About
Jes Aznar is a Filipino photographer. His photos and stories depict humanitarian issues from land reform, poverty, to conflicts and disasters. He has done several photo essays such as the Hacienda Luisita uprising, human conditions in urban dwellings, the war against diseases in Cambodia, humanitarian issues and the war in Mindanao, and recently, the human trafficking issue in the Philippines and other parts of the world, which recently won him the National Media Award for his photo essay on the lives of trafficked Filipinas in Sabah, Malaysia.
He is a full time documentary photographer and focuses mainly on human rights, the issue of land, and Mindanao. He has worked for Agence France-Presse, New York based Reflex News agency and gmanews.tv. His works has been published on the pages of The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Time Magazine, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Stern, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Asia Geo magazine, among others.
Jes took up Advertising at the pontifical University of Santo Tomas, and painting at the University of the Philippines and at the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University where he took up subjects in photojournalism.
