At the age of 18, she was the youngest photographer to cover the 1999 student uprising, which was a turning point for the country's blossoming reformist movement. She later joined the New York based agency Polaris Images. In 2002, she began working internationally, and has since covered regional conflicts and natural disasters, as well as made social documentaries in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Yemen. Her work is published in international magazines and newspapers such as Time Magazine, Newsweek, Stern, Le Figaro, Colors, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, NRC Handelsblad, and The New York Times Magazine. She has shown her work internationally in museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the British Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.