Based in Minnesota, Yasmin is a photographer and director who started out documenting her travels while working as a researcher in the field along the west coast of Canada. Her work focuses on celebrating & highlighting community-based stories and subcultures.
With a background in science, Yasmin brings her research experience along with her to build relationships & understand context before creating portraits and moving images. Her goal is to tell stories as authentically as possible to their essence, with integrity towards those that invite her into their lives. 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, while considering the lived experiences of those captured in relation to shared spaces and environments.
