Shirin Bhandari
Shirin Bhandari (2021) is a freelance writer, photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Manila. Her articles and photographs have been featured in “Roads and Kingdoms,” Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown,” Women’s Media Center, CNN and VICE. She has worked on documentaries for UNICEF, Save the Children and CARE. Shirin’s stories have touched on important topics on conflict, displacement, malnutrition, HIV and LGBT/gender-based issues.
As a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow, Shirin will work on her documentary film, “People of the Lake,” which focuses on the effects of war, displacement and colonization on the indigenous people of Marawi, in Mindanao, Philippines.