Shirin Begum is an artist and urban gardener. She lives and works in Singapore, Malaysia and Cambodia. She studied art and photography at the Temasek Institute in Singapore and has realized artistic and participatory projects in many different countries and during her travels. Among others in Puna, India in collaboration with the Waste Pickers Organisation SWACH, in Malaysia, Pakistan, China, Tibet, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Hawaii, Thailand, Cambodia, Italy, Germany and Turkey.