Sim Chi Yin is a freelance photographer based in Beijing, a member of the Vii Photo Agency’s Mentor Program.

Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and the Asia Society.

In 2010, she was awarded a Magnum Foundation scholarship for a summer program in “Photography and Human Rights” at New York University, and did stints at Magnum Photos’ New York office and the International Center of Photography.

Chi Yin was a journalist and foreign correspondent
 for The Straits Times, Singapore’s national English language daily for nine years — straddling words and pictures, 
and reporting around Southeast Asia and China — before leaving to return to her first love, photography, at the end of 2010.

Her photo-and-text book on Indonesian women migrant workers, funded by the United Nations’ International Labor Organization, was published in September 2011.

A fourth-generation overseas Chinese, Chi Yin grew up in Singapore. She did history and international relations degrees at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

She sometimes dreams in mute black-and-white mode, but in real life is fascinated by color and light, and is at home in both English and Mandarin Chinese. She is available for editorial and commercial assignments around China and Asia.

www.simchiyin.com