Geela
Garcia

Awardee

Country

Philippines

Geela Garcia advocates for the environment through her photography.
Themes
Environment / Climate emergency
Indigenous rights
Gender equality
Reexamining history
Others
Disciplines
Media / Journalism
Photography
Awards
SEED Award 2023

Profile

Geela Garcia is a photographer and multimedia journalist based in the Philippines. In 2023, Geela was selected as one of the participants in the 18th edition of the Angkor Photo Workshops. In her work, Geela documents stories of women, food sovereignty, and the environment, aiming to write history from the experience of its makers. She is a Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung Media fellow with a diploma in Visual Journalism at the Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University. Her writing and photography have appeared in the Thomson Reuters Foundation, South China Morning Post, and Vogue Philippines, among others.