La Loba, Sisterhood


Photography, 2024
Tianjun Li
A photographic series with Sandrayati, Kyra, and Kahayag. During the SIM Artist Residency in Reykjavík, Iceland




In this photographic collaboration, La Loba, Sisterhood, I worked with Filipino-American singer-songwriter Sandrayati and her sisters Kyra and Kahayag in the windswept landscapes of Reykjavík. Inspired by myth, migration, and the power of feminine bonds, the work is about voice, memory, and ancestral resonance.

The title draws from the song La Loba by Sandrayati:

La Loba -
In the old myth, she is the one who gathers the bones a seeker of what’s been buried, singing life back into what was forgotten.

This song is her story, the wild feminine remembered in the act of reclamation.

A tale carried forward, whispered through time.





































Sandrayati was born to a Filipino mother and an Amer
ican father, and raised across Java, Bali, and later the Philippines, now lives in Icelannd. Her music and presence carry the spirit of lived migration and rooted resistance. With a voice both ethereal and grounded, she sings of uprooting, return, and healing. Her upbringing in a family devoted to land rights and folk traditions gives her work an echo of protest, tenderness, and truth.