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

Mailee often focuses on gender and minority issues. As a stringer for Getty Images and freelance photojournalist, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Der Spiegel, The Telegraph, and elsewhere. She is a member of Women Photograph and Diversify Photo “Up Next”. In 2022, she was selected to participate at the Eddie Adams Workshop and Missouri Photo Workshop for documentary photography. Her written reporting has been commissioned by the likes of CNN, Longreads, South China Morning Post, Al Jazeera, and VICE World News.

As part of Human Pictures and Ruom Collective, Mailee has directed short documentary films that have gone on to be officially selected at international film festivals. She manages video projects for third sector organisations, with clients including UNDP, UNFPA, ADB, WHO, UN Women, FHI 360, UNESCAP, World Vision, and Pratthanadee Foundation. 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.

Mailee is based in Bangkok, Thailand, and is available for assignments in Asia or further afield.

maileeot@gmail.com