Sai Versailles


Multimedia Journalist

A controversial drug raid leads to the closure of a dance club in Manila, leaving a music subculture lost and scrambling.

Filipino food is gaining worldwide popularity. But as the diaspora grapples with the country's multicultural history, the cuisine's identity is yet to be established.

In Manila, Heritage Architecture Struggles to Survive


With the demolishing of Capitol Theatre, one of Manila’s last remaining art-deco theaters, the city’s cultural landmarks face a precarious future as it finds its footing in a transforming urban landscape.
CNN Philippines

To those who knew the artist, no headline could ever capture the complex truth of her humanity. But there are beautiful traces of it.








Photographer
01 — Editorial
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02 — Portraits



Dub and ambient techno
Featured on RA’s Mix Of The Day

Dance film scores and soundtracks  

R’n’B, hip-hop, soul, afrobeat




Biography

Sai Versailles traverses the fields of art and multimedia journalism, engaging with the multitude of ways people understand culture, history, and politics.

As a multimedia journalist, her reporting investigates the sociopolitical dynamics of creativity, exploring the everyday lives of people and their communities.

As a selector under her pseudonym Versailles, she describes her approach as "referential" – whether in her incorporation of sound bites and field recordings into DJ sets, or by shuffling through densely layered repetitions of a cross-generational sound.

Versailles is a resident of Refuge Worldwide with her show ‘Master Selector,’ and is a volunteer managing partner and archivist of Manila Community Radio.

She holds an MPhil from the University of Oxford, and has participated in public discussions on culture throughout the UK, Philippines, and Germany.


Press

Feature
Resident Advisor, 2023.


Feature
Vogue Philippines, 2023.


Feature
Mixmag Asia, 2023.


Podcast interview
Dead Air Podcast, 2022


Interview
Mixmag Asia, 2021.


Feature
Out Of Print, 2021.


Podcast interview
Monday Off Radio, 2020


Feature
nolisoli.ph, 2019.
 

Vogue Philipines, May 2023
Shot by Sharif Hamza