Amaal Said

Amaal is a Danish-born Somali photographer and poet, currently based in London, UK. She’s concerned with storytelling and how best she can connect with people to document their stories. She has photographed mainly Women of Colour in an attempt to widen representation. She started with taking as many pictures of family members because she wanted to remember them, however far they were. She’s fascinated with the way people can use photographs to bring people closer.
The photography grew out of the writing. There were things she could photograph better than she could describe. She’s a member of the Burn After Reading poetry collective and a former Barbican Young Poet. She won the Wasafiri New Writing Prize for poetry in 2015.