Amaal Said

b. 1995, Denmark

Amaal Said (b.1995) is a Danish-born Somali photographer and poet based in London. Her photographs have been featured in Vogue, The Guardian, and The New Yorker. She is fascinated by storytelling and how best she can connect with people to document their stories. She won the Wasafiri Magazine’s New Writing Prize for poetry in 2015. In 2017, she was exhibited in Los Angeles, California. In 2018, her photography was featured in the fourth volume of African Lens and was exhibited in Accra, Ghana. She is a member of Octavia, poetry collective for womxn of colour, and a former Barbican Young Poet.

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