Based in Minnesota, Yasmin is a photographer who started out documenting her travels while working as a researcher in the field visiting Indigenous communities along the west coast. Her work focuses on celebrating + highlighting stories and subcultures within communities of color and the diaspora. With a background in science, Yasmin brings her research experience along on with her to build relationships with people & understanding context before creating portraits and images. Her goal is to tell stories as authentically as possible to their essence, with integrity towards the communities that invite her into their lives. Through each image, she embodies the role of a storyteller, while considering the lived experiences of those captured in relation to shared spaces and environments. Her work aims to show the world from the eyes of a storyteller — in the tradition of her East African oral-storytelling heritage — and recreate feelings in her imagery using the dynamic effects of light and color. She was recently awarded an ADC gold cube in photography, is part of Diversify Photo’s ‘Up Next’ list of photographers to watch, and is a member of the Black Women Photographer’s Collective and Authority Collective. Select clients include: Apple, Adobe, Verizon, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal and The Wire Magazine