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Samira Saidi

Ghana • 1995

Biography

Samira Saidi is an Afro-European, woman of colour, whose practice has the aim to inspect and shift the sociological structures of race, belonging, and explores the duality of intersectional identity. After her Bachelor's Degree at the Royal Academy of Arts, Den Haag, she started using photography and writing as her main media to bring her ideas into reality. Throughout the last years, she has expanded her practice into the realms of documentary photography and photojournalism. Generally, she expresses herself through photography, writing, and performance art and often creates multi-media work with the aim to spark critical conversations about socio-economic topics.

Saidi is currently studying Applied Human Rights at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Nationality

Ghanaian artists

Themes

Portrait, Black and white, Seascape