In this talk Saiyna shares her experience of travelling around the United States of America and Pakistan as a female photojournalist and capturing some of the hard but important stories. Saiyna Bashir is a photojournalist from Pakistan, currently based in Islamabad. She has been accepted to the Eddie Adams Workshop, the New York Times Portfolio Review and the New York Times Student Journalism Institute.

Saiyna is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Reuters, Al Jazeera America, Associated Press, Huffington Post, CNN, Unicef, Refinery 29, Chicago Sun-Times, and NPR among others. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx