DANTE DIOSINA JR.
Founder of Sitio Arya | Documentary Filmmaker | Photojournalist | Visual Storyteller
Dante Diosina Jr. is an independent documentary filmmaker, photojournalist, and visual storyteller based in the Philippines, with over ten years of experience documenting social justice, cultural preservation, spirituality, indigenous communities, and environmental issues.
He is the founder of SITIO ARYA Production, a creative studio dedicated to crafting impactful visual stories that serve as instruments for awareness, advocacy, and social development. Rooted in lived experience and deep empathy, Dante’s work bridges documentary realism with artistic depth.
His photojournalism and films have reached major international platforms, earning commissions and collaborations from global organizations including UNICEF, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Deutsche Welle, CNA, Anadolu Agency, and Greenpeace, alongside his former photojournalism work with The Manila Times and Rappler Philippines.
Throughout his career, Dante has received multiple accolades and exhibited his work both locally and globally.
Awards & Recognitions
Ocean Stars Underwater Photo Gallery (Aug 2023)
Nominated Underwater Photographer
Fotonostrum Magazine – Featured Artist, June 2023 Issue
Changing Asia - New Normal Exhibition (APEC 2022, Thailand) Exhibitor & Book Feature
The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest 2022 Special Prize by the International Committee of the Red Cross
Apoy at Lente
Bureau of Fire Protection National Photography Contest 2021
1st Place, Photography Category
Siena International Photo Awards 2020
Honorable Mention
Honorable Mention
MEET Photo 2020 (1st edition)
Selected Artist
Selected Artist
International PhotoGrant 2017
Nominee Award
Nominee Award
IFORPhoto Award 2017
Honorable Mention
Honorable Mention
Exhibitions & Publications
War on Drugs in the Philippines (Group Exhibition) – Featured photographer documenting the Duterte administration’s war on drugs; exhibited in various locations including the Philippines and international venues such as WARM Festival in Sarajevo.
Changing Asia Exhibit & Photobook
Selected artist for APEC 2022 exhibit in Thailand.
Selected artist for APEC 2022 exhibit in Thailand.
Ocean Stars Underwater Exhibit
Photographic nominee featured in 2023 exhibition.
Photographic nominee featured in 2023 exhibition.
Zines & Self-Publications
The Sacred Remembrance: The Remembering (2025)
A personal visual journal capturing unseen and sacred moments during spiritual ceremonies.
A personal visual journal capturing unseen and sacred moments during spiritual ceremonies.
Duterte’s War
A self-published zine exposing the brutal reality of the Philippine drug war under former President Rodrigo Duterte, where thousands lost their lives.
A self-published zine exposing the brutal reality of the Philippine drug war under former President Rodrigo Duterte, where thousands lost their lives.
The Face of Bla’an Tribe
A self-published photobook documenting the lives of the Bla’an, an Indigenous tribe in Mindanao, Philippines. One of Dante’s earliest ethnographic projects.
A self-published photobook documenting the lives of the Bla’an, an Indigenous tribe in Mindanao, Philippines. One of Dante’s earliest ethnographic projects.
MAJ DOCA
Co-Founder of Sitio Arya | Founder, Talaica Qi Wellness |
Cultural Steward | Multidisciplinary Designer | Visionary Storyteller | Curator | Sacred Space Holder
Cultural Steward | Multidisciplinary Designer | Visionary Storyteller | Curator | Sacred Space Holder
Maj is a multidisciplinary artist, interior designer, architect, and visionary storyteller devoted to crafting soul-aligned spaces, brand identities, and healing experiences that awaken beauty, truth, and purpose.
As the heart behind Sitio Arya, she weaves art, ecology, and spirit into a living creative practice rooted in ancestral wisdom, deep healing, and soul awakening. Her work moves across interior design, creative direction, fashion styling, aromatherapy, healing crafts, and visual storytelling—each expression guided by reverence for nature, culture, and the unseen threads that connect all life. A trained architect and Fine Arts graduate majoring in Interior Design, with further studies in fashion at SoFA, she has shaped her creative path independently from a young age.
Through Talaica Qi Wellness, Maj leads wellness experience design, ceremonial facilitation, metaphysical teaching, and consciousness guidance, bringing together mind-body practices, holistic wellness frameworks, ecosomatic approaches, spiritual inquiry, and intentional ritual. Her work encompasses retreats, rites of passage, ancestral ceremonies, sacred gatherings, and nature-based wellness experiences, creating spaces for self-discovery, expanded consciousness, ancestral remembrance, devotion, and deeper relationship with the natural world, while ensuring that each offering is held with authenticity, care, cultural reverence, and professional structure.
Beyond her design practice, Maj is a certified ecosomatic sylvotherapy wellness practitioner, trauma-informed transformational coach, herbalist, chromotherapy practitioner, divine healer, and an initiated Babaylan. Her healing work bridges somatic and ecosomatic approaches, honoring the body as a living archive of experience, memory, and ancestral intelligence, inseparable from the land and the natural world. Through the integration of chromotherapy as a therapeutic tool for emotional and energetic healing, her work is grounded in gentle, embodied practices that respect the intelligence of the body, the wisdom of nature, and the importance of slow, compassionate restoration.
She facilitates retreats and healing ceremonies in the Philippines that honor earth-based traditions, Indigenous healing lineages, ancestral practices from various cultures, and devotional paths such as Bhakti Yoga. Her work brings together diverse spiritual and contemplative traditions with humility and reverence, creating spaces for ancestral remembrance, devotion, embodiment, and deeper relationship with the natural world. Her immersion in Indigenous tribes and traditional healing communities, including time spent living in a maloca, a ceremonial and communal sacred space, alongside intensive shamanic training, has profoundly shaped her path, grounding her work in humility, reverence, and lived wisdom.
Maj is also an advocate of the rematriation movement, dedicating her work to the restoration of sacred feminine wisdom, ancestral memory, and right relationship with the Earth. She believes healing is both personal and collective, and that true transformation arises when communities are supported with integrity, compassion, and care. Her belief in alternative and integrative healing deepened after the loss of her father to cancer, a life-altering experience that awakened her commitment to holistic practices that honor the body, soul, and spirit. This moment became a turning point, inspiring her life’s work of bridging ancient wisdom with contemporary healing modalities that nurture wholeness and support life.
Through Sitio Arya, Maj is building a heart-led creative production studio and a living ecosystem for meaningful storytelling, bringing together photo and video journalists, artists, and visionaries to create soul-stirring documentaries, visual narratives, and experiences that reflect collective healing, cultural remembrance, and planetary care.
Maj’s creations are more than visuals. They are offerings. Every detail is intentional. Every project, a devotional prayer. She believes that when design and storytelling are led from the heart, they become acts of service, shaping not only what we see, but how we feel, remember, and connect, leaving a quiet, enduring legacy that future generations can return to and build upon.