Is a Crimean Tatar documentary photographer and independent consultant currently working in the non-profit and media development sphere. She was born in Uzbekistan, where her family was deported from Crimea in 1944 by the Stalin regime. Growing up as a Crimean Tatar in Ukraine after the Soviet Union’s collapse, she received a first-hand understanding of the various human rights issues that arose with the collapse of the economic and political system. The desire to advocate for people brought her to the career paths of sociology and documentary photography. Her experience places her at the intersection of documentary photography, sociology, human rights, and journalism. She holds a MA degree in sociology from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and an MA degree in photojournalism from Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication. After having worked in documentary photography and journalism from 2012–2017 in Ukraine, she relocated to the UK, where she has been working in the non-profit sector, most recently as a media consultant with the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Her work has been supported by a Fulbright Scholarship and a Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Fellowship and her photography projects have been exhibited in Ukraine as well as internationally.