About

Luis Liwanag, Malacca 2012

Luis Liwanag is a freelance photo/videodocumentarian. His photos and stories depict humanitarian issues, reproductive health, poverty, environmental issues, disasters and daily life stories.

He has worked for Washington-based Benar News Agency, Gama Liaison, Agence France-Presse, New York based Getty Images,Asoociated Presse, European News Agency ,Xinhua News Agency and TV, ABS-CBN TV, and GMANews.tv. His works has been published on the pages of The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Time Magazine, Newsweek, Financial Times, Stern,Der SPiegel, The Guardian, and various other International and Local magazines and Newspapers. Luis has also shot various Video Documentaries for NGO’s like United Nations, World Food Programme, World Bank, Reproductive Rights in New York.
Luis took up Advertising at the University of the East, and undergraduate courses at the University of the Philippines in Baguio and at the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University where he received a diploma in photojournalism and is a facilitator of the Wide Open Streets Street Photography Workshop.

Luis short film won First place in the 2018 Digital storytelling contest for  “Duterte’s Hell” a documentary about Duterte’s war on drugs.

Available for photo/video assignments anywhere.Shoots freelance

6 Comments on “About

  1. Good morning, Sir Luis Liwanag! This is Mike Santillan from TV5. This is for Cignal TV-One PH’s ‘Wag Po!, a teleradyo show headlined by veteran journos Ed Lingao, Patrick Paez, Lourd de Veyra, Jove Francisco, Melvyn Calderon and Manny Mogato. It airs weeknights from 9pm to 11pm on OnePH channel 6 and livestreamed on Facebook.

    May we invite you po to join with our hosts tomorrow reminiscing the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution. Interview will be from 9:30pm to 10:30pm. Calltime is 9:15pm at TV5 Reliance Mandaluyong. Thank you and hope to hear from you!

    Mike Santillan
    09171596748

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