Senayt Samuel

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Senayt Samuel
Born1969 (age 5455)
Education Paier College of Art
Alma mater Southern Connecticut State University; University of Westminster
OccupationPhotographer

Senayt Samuel (born 1969) [1] is a photographer, based in London, England. Her work is informed by her family's deportation from Ethiopia and has been included in exhibitions at the Royal Festival Hall and Tate Britain in London.

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Life and work

Samuel was born in Asmara, Ethiopia, and was raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and New Haven, Connecticut. [2] She studied Art History and Fine Arts at Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, and at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. [2] While studying abroad as a teenager, her family were deported from Ethiopia, which is a topic that informs her work as a photographer. [3] [4] She moved to London in 2002, [5] where she gained an MA degree in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster. [2]

She interned as a photojournalist at the New Haven Register , then worked freelance as a photographer in Connecticut and New York. [2]

Her Id series (2003) comprises portraits taken in front of mirrors. [4]

She has a daughter, born in 2005. [6]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

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