Mailee Osten-Tan is a Malaysian-German and British photojournalist and filmmaker working in South and Southeast Asia.

Mailee has been based in Bangkok, Thailand, since 2017. Her personal work often focuses on gender and minority inequalities. She is a stringer for Getty Images, and a member of Women Photograph and Diversify Photo “Up Next”. In 2022, she was selected for the Eddie Adams Workshop and Missouri Photo Workshop for documentary photography. As part of Human Pictures and Ruom Collective, Mailee has directed and produced short documentary films that have gone on to be showcased at international film festivals. She studied at the University of Oxford and the University of Exeter, and has a graduate certificate in Film from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

Contact: maileeot@gmail.com

Clients
Getty Images / CNN / The Telegraph / The Guardian / Der Spiegel / VICE / Al Jazeera/ South China Morning Post/ Longreads / UNDP / UNFPA / UN Women / WHO / World Vision / Oxfam

Published in
The New York Times / CNN / The Times / Die Zeit / Foreign Policy / Die Presse / Them / Deutsche Welle