about asiya
Asiya recently graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University with majors in Architecture and Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures. She is a freelance photographer based primarily in New York and Seattle. Her freelance work includes portrait, wedding, and event photography.
Her passion for photography is rooted in a fascination of people and culture. She has photographed in many places around the world, including India, Ghana, Tanzania, Italy, Turkey, Jordan, Syria, & Lebanon. Through her photographs, she endeavors to tell stories about people in her effort to portray human life in its element.
Asiya also has a strong interest in social justice issues. She photographed in the largest Muslim Ghetto, Juhapura in Ahmedabad, Gujarat two years after communal riots caused widespread fighting in the area. She created a multimedia piece from audio clips and photographs she took during her stay in her effort to shed light on the minority communities plight. Also, during her stay in Ghana, she attended an academic conference that addressed the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave trade. With interviews her classmate Ellen Robbinson and she gathered, she created a multimedia piece addressing the role morality played in the abolition of the slave trade.
Asiya is also an expert in the art of Indian and Arabic style henna/mehndi.