People. Cities. Stories.
Faces By Bjorn
A long-term portrait series that documents individuals across cities through a restrained visual language rooted in black and white. Each chapter is shaped by its geography, its people, and the cultural codes that define how they move through the world.
With over fifteen years in the fashion industry, his practice moves between image and emotion. His early career was shaped within large-scale retail, where he led digital creative direction and helped define a new visual language for Filipino fashion. Today, his work has shifted toward something more personal. Slower. More observational. Portraiture sits at the center of his practice.
Faces by Bjorn is built as a living archive. Each subject is approached with intention. Stripped of excess, reduced to presence, expression, and identity. There is no fixed casting logic. The series moves across disciplines, industries, and backgrounds. What connects each face is not status, but a certain weight. A sense of something real beneath the surface. The work sits between fashion and anthropology. Between styling and stillness.
The project was conceived during Bjorn’s time in Bangkok.
Living in the city marked a shift in both pace and perspective. Immersed in a culture shaped by generosity, restraint, and a deep awareness of others, he began to reframe how he saw people and how he photographed them. Bangkok became the first chapter of the series, shaped by the country code +66. Sixty-six portraits reflecting the individuals who informed that period of creative and personal recalibration.
What began there now extends beyond it.
Each city becomes a chapter.
Each chapter follows its country code.
Bangkok (+66)
Manila (+63)
Tokyo (+81)
Seoul (+82)
Shanghai (+86)
Together, they form a growing index of faces. A study of identity across place.
The inaugural exhibition opened in Bangkok, marking both a personal and creative milestone.
Future exhibitions will continue to expand across Asia, following the evolution of each chapter.