Wanna have love?!

In the Philippines, the sex business is booming. Buoyed by cheap airline tickets, the island has become a popular destination for sex tourists. Here, travellers from Europe, Australia and the United States care little of what happens after they leave: thousands of children fathered by tourists grow up without them in a country in which for many the "Western look" is symbolized by the mother who is also a prostitute, no matter what she really does for living.

There are thousands of children and adolescents with white skin, brown or blond hair and light-brown or blue eyes. They are the offspring of Europeans, Americans or Australians and in a country where there is almost zero immigration they are quite noticeable, strangely foreign, oddly different. Immediately, they are stigmatized as children of prostitutes and forever - for a lifetime for most of them – they are considered unwanted outsiders. 

Insa Hagemann and Stefan Finger (born 1983) are German photographers.

Hagemann studied Photojournalism and Documentary Photography. After graduating in 2013 from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover, she has been working as a freelance photographer for different newspapers, magazines and companies. Besides, she is working on her own long-term projects. Hagemann already won several prizes and took part in different Exhibitions and Festivals in Germany and Europe.

After his Bachelor's degree in Politics, Media and Sociology, Stefan Finger received his Master in Political Communication at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. During his studies he worked as a freelance photographer and writer for several newspapers. He was already nominated for the CNN Journalist of the Year award and the Media Prize of the "Kindernothilfe".  The story “Wanna Have Love?! - Consequences of Sex Tourism” was the first long-term project Hagemann and Finger realized as a team. Hagemann and Finger won the international highly prestigious UNICEF Photo of the Year Award in 2014.

Both are represented by the photo agency Laif.