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 with her to build relationships & understand 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.

Yasmin is part of Diversify Photo’s ‘Up Next’ list of photographers to watch, and was featured by Focus Camera as one of the ’10 Black Women Photographers to Follow in 2022′.

She was recently awarded an ADC gold cube in photography, and is a member of the Black Women Photographer’s Collective and Authority Collective.