[1] Her series Hafiz, about girls at Quran schools in Turkey, was shown in a solo exhibition at Kunsthal, Rotterdam.
Çimen was born in Istanbul to an ethnically Kurdish Persian family.
[3][4] Her master's thesis on subaltern studies, which includes her photo story "Turkey as a Simulated Country", was published in 2019.
"Hafiz" means "guardian" and refers to people who memorize the Quran.
Çimen spent 3 years herself studying in such a school, where she returned to in 2017 to begin making this autobiographical work.