About Tanya Bindra

anya Bindra is a Swiss-Canadian photojournalist and filmmaker. She has spent the past four years reporting on postcolonial politics and communities across West Africa and South Asia and is now based between New York City and Berlin.

She has contributed to outlets such as the New York Times, Newsweek, Le Monde, VICE, Time Magazine, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. She has filed regularly to the Associated Press and European Pressphoto Agency and has also partnered on humanitarian advocacy campaigns with UNICEF, Médecins Sans Frontières and others.

Before turning to photography, she provided crisis support and legal accompaniment services to survivors of sexual assault and later continued advocacy work at an immigrant workers center.

She can be contacted for assignments worldwide.