Kimberly dela Cruz is an independent photographer based in Manila.
While studying Journalism, she became an activist and started carrying a camera in protests. She began her career as a photo correspondent for the Philippine Daily Inquirer in 2013 before transitioning to documentary photography and working for different publications. Dela Cruz started covering the war on drugs in the Philippines in 2016 and the following year co-produced Si Kian, a children’s book on the murder of Kian Delos Santos that won a National Children’s Book Award. In 2018, she became a fellow for the International Women’s Media Foundation and was sent to cover migration and stories of gender in El Salvador.
Her project Death of Nation chronicling the crime scenes in Manila and the lives of the families affected by the killings was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund for Humanistic Photography in 2021 and won the World Press Photo Long Term Projects category in South East Asia and Oceania in 2023. Her work has appeared in various publications and exhibitions.
http://kimberlydelacruz.com
email at kimidc@protonmail.com
