Through the Backdoor

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 in 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 while shooting part time for Agence France-Presse and other publications. Prior to this, he has worked for New York based Reflex News agency and gmanews.tv. He has contributed photos to various news and feature publications like Newsbreak and Asia Geo magazine. His works have been published on the pages of Time Magazine, Newsweek, Stern, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Asia Geo magazine, among others. He has held 2 one-man exhibitions and gained audience at the Angkor Photo Festival in Cambodia in 2008.
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.