Experience
2020–Founder and managing director, Fankeenna
2020–Creative director, MUUQO
2015–Freelance photographer, graphic designer and media producer
2012–2015Art director and graphic designer, SOMTEL International
2011–2014Event coordinator and graphic designer, Afrikanation Artists Organization
2010–2012Graphic designer, Sagal Advertisement Company, Hargeisa
2009–2010Graphic designer, ASAL Advertising & Printing Center
Awards and fellowships
2025Arab Documentary Photography Program Alumni Fellowship, for Lens Through Legacy
2021Emerging Lens Mentorship Program, grant recipient, ART WORKS Projects
2015Arab Documentary Photography Program, six months of mentorship funded by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Magnum Foundation and the Prince Claus Fund
Exhibitions
2024–2025The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
2024Heavy, Emerging Lens exhibition, Photoville, New York
2024Africa Foto Fair
2023Highlights, Ithra, Dhahran
2022Africa Foto Fair, Abidjan
2022Photo Vogue Festival, Milan
2020AFF Archive, touring exhibition, Sharjah
2019Marai'ina, group exhibition by Ithra, Dhahran
2019Since Yesterday, group exhibition by SOOMAAL Art House, Minneapolis
2019The Anarchist Citizenship, a project initiated by Amal Alhaag and Nadine Stijns, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
2018UNSEEN Photo Fair, Amsterdam, with gallery LhGWR
2017Cornered Energies, Hargeisa
2017UTOCORPIS Les Corps Utopiques, video installation, touring exhibition
2016Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg
2015Lumières d'Afriques, touring exhibition
2015Just Another Photo Festival, Delhi
2014AddisFotoFest, Addis Ababa
2013Pop Up Addis, Addis Ababa
2013Hargeisa in Me, Hargeisa
Editorial clients
Languages
Somali (mother tongue), English (proficient), Arabic (fluent)
Contact
Instagram@themustafasaeed