Alan Dejecacion works on long term documentary projects about contemporary rural and urban life. He has been a freelance photographer since the mid-1990s. His on-going projects in southeast asia has particularly focused on the plight of Manila’s street children in the Philippines, a project he has been working on since the early 1990s and through successive visits thereafter. Dejecacion has also started documenting life in rural Laos when the Lao People’s Democratic Republic reluctantly reopened its doors to the outside world in the mid-1990s after its major source of aid dried up with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
While working on these southeast asian projects, Dejecacion also served as contributing photographer for the Associated Press bureau in Manila and Reuters Tokyo bureau. Alan’s images have appeared in publications worldwide including Time, Newsweek, Business Week, The New York Times Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Stern, and Der Speigel.
Alan Dejecacion makes his home in San Francisco, California.
Email: alan@magnesiumphotos.com
Website: www.alandejecacion.com