Amaal Said is a Danish-born Somali photographer and poet, based in London. Her photographs have been featured in Vogue, the Guardian and The New York Times. She is concerned with storytelling and how best she can connect with people to document their stories. She won Wasafiri magazine’s New Writing Prize for poetry in 2015. In 2017, she 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 is a former Barbican Young Poet.
Amaal Said
What We Leave We Carry

Amaal Said
Amaal Said talks about feeling Somali without ever having been there.
28th August 2024
Original Series

Portrait of a life
Amaal Said, a Danish-born Somali photographer and poet based in London, appreciates having photos to look back at as proof of survival in one's country of migration.
17th May 2022

Amaal Said
Amaal Said is a Danish-born Somali photographer and poet, based in London.




