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    <title>Images by Veejay Villafranca (Lightstalkers)</title>
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Vicente Jaime &#8220;Veejay&#8221; Villafranca (b. 1982 Philippines) was amongst &#8232;seven Filipinos to be accepted in the first Asian documentary workshop &#8232;of the Angkor photography festival in Siem Reap, Cambodia. After &#8232;freelancing in 2006, he worked with international wire agencies such as  Agence France Presse, Reuters,&#8232;World Picture Network and the United Nations IRIN news wire.

His&#8232; project about the lives of former gang members in one of Manila&#8217;s &#8232;dangerous slums, BASECO compound, garnered the 2008 Ian Parry&#8232;Scholarship grant in London. He is also the recipient of the 2007-2008&#8232; Asian Center for Journalism Photojournalism program in partnership&#8232;with the World Press Photo Foundation, the 2nd artist to hold residence in the Crossing Point program held in Perpignan, France. His images has been shown in &#8232;London, Lithuania, Hongkong, Phnom Pehn, France, Portugal, Norway, Turkey and Manila.&#8232;

Veejay is represented by Getty Global Assignments in London and Asia Motion in the Asian and French markets.
His ongoing projects evolve around the Filipino faith, the concept of&#8232; reserved space for ethnic tribes in the Philippines, and illegal refugees in Southeast&#8232; Asia apart from his project with the gangs and the continuously changing social and political landscape of his country</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:27:49 -0700</pubDate>
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