Amaal Said

“What about all the other cultures, like African Muslim women, or Caribbean Muslim women? I really wanted to photograph that.”

Meet Amaal

Amaal Said (she/her) is a Danish-born Somali photographer and poet, currently based in London. She is concerned with different modes of storytelling and how best she can connect with people to document their stories.

Her commission project for Artist Development Fund is inspired by the everyday rituals of Muslim women in Britan. Her photographs have been featured in Vogue, The Guardian and The New York Times. An accomplished writer, she won Wasafiri Magazine’s New Writing Prize for poetry in 2015. She is a member of Octavia, poetry collective for womxn of color, and is a former Barbican Young Poet.

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