Her photograph of Bibi Aisha, a woman from Afghanistan whose ears and nose were severed by her husband and brother-in-law, was selected as the World Press Photo of the Year in 2010.

[4] In 2000 she covered an ebola outbreak in Uganda for The New York Times Magazine.

"[3] Bibi Aisha, then 18, was disfigured after being convicted by the Taliban of taking refuge from a violent husband in her family home.

David Burnett, the chair of the World Press Photo (WPP) jury, said of Bieber's photo of Aisha, "This could become one of those pictures – and we have maybe just ten in our lifetime – where if somebody says, 'You know, that picture of a girl … ', you know exactly which one they're talking about."

[9][10] During the lockdown imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, Bieber published on Instagram a series of photographs of her husband Francois in various costumes.