Biography

Geela Garcia is a Filipino freelance multimedia journalist based in Manila, Philippines. Her photographic work, which documents stories of women, food sovereignty and the environment, aims to write history from the experience of its makers.

In 2023, Garcia became one of the 15 fellows of the longest running Southeast Asian photo festival, the Angkor Photo Workshops, held in Siem Reap, Cambodia. In 2022, Garcia co-investigated a story modern slavery of Filipinos on Irish fishing vessels. She was a recipient of the 2021 Fisheries Subsidies Grant from EJN. 

Her stories on inclusive development and community resilience appear on the Thomson Reuters Foundation, South China Morning Post, and Philstar among others. Garcia is a Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung Media Programme Asia fellow with a diploma in visual journalism from the Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University.