Yasmine Soiffer

Yasmine Soiffer is a documentary and fine art photographer. She was recently awarded 3rd Place for an Editorial Photo Essay in the International Photo/Lucie Awards and is a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Community Arts Grant Recipient. Yasmine graduated from the General Studies program at the International Center of Photography in 2008, and has since had exhibitions in New York, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv and worked on documentary, culture, and news stories and singles in Tel Aviv, as well as photographing for various organizations and commissioned portraits. Clients include CS Monitor, Time Out Magazine, Flash 90 Photo Agency, W Magazine, Walla, and Green Action.

She was born in Sri Lanka, and, as the child of diplomats, called Pakistan, Israel, Japan, Virginia, Paris, and Ivory Coast home by the time she settled in New York City to attend university. Before turning her eye to photography, she worked as a performer in the theatre and taught English/ESL.

She is currently based in New York and Tel Aviv, and available for assignments worldwide.