Hannah Reyes Morales was born and raised in Manila, where she completed her bachelor's degree in Speech Communication in the University of the Philippines Diliman. While studying she undertook an internship with the european pressphoto agency. Hannah’s photography focuses on individuals mired in complex situations created by inequality, poverty, and impunity. She has photographed human trafficking at sea in the Philippines for The New York Times, reported on war crimes against Cambodian women for Al Jazeera America, and documented changing indigenous cultures in the Philippines with a grant from National Geographic. In 2016, Hannah used a grant from the GroundTruth Project to complete the project, ‘Shelter from the Storm,’ which examines how Filipina women are more vulnerable to sexual violence and trafficking after typhoons. In a similar intimate and complex vein, her current personal project documents the lives of domestic workers employed by her family in the Philippines.