Senayt Samuel
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Senayt Samuel (born 1969){{cite web|url=https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/hayward-gallery/touring-exhibitions/past-hayward-gallery-touring-exhibitions/reflections-on-the-self/|title=Reflections on the Self: Five African Women Photographers|website=Southbank Centre|access-date=25 November 2024}} 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.
Life and work
Samuel was born in Asmara, Eritrea, and was raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and New Haven, Connecticut.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/oct/19/imagineartafter.art11|title=Senayt Samuel: biography|date=19 October 2005|newspaper=The Guardian}} She studied Art History and Fine Arts at Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, and at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. While studying abroad as a teenager, her family were deported from Ethiopia, which is a topic that informs her work as a photographer.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/arts/imagineartafter/gallery/0,,1595828,00.html|title=Senayt Samuel index|newspaper=The Guardian}}{{cite journal|date=March 2011|title=L'Art au Féminin: Approches Contemporaines |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-africultures-2011-3-page-128.htm#|journal=Africultures|issue= 85|pages=128–133}} She moved to London in 2002,{{cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/imagine-art-after/imagine-art-after-senayt-samuel|title=imagine art after: Senayt Samuel|last=Tate|website=Tate}} where she gained an MA degree in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster.
She interned as a photojournalist at the New Haven Register, then worked freelance as a photographer in Connecticut and New York.
Her Id series (2003) comprises portraits taken in front of mirrors.
She has a daughter, born in 2005.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/dec/22/art|title=Imagine art after: Afterwords|date=22 December 2005|newspaper=The Guardian}}
Exhibitions
=Solo exhibitions=
- People and Landscape of East Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia and Kenya), Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, June–July 1999.{{cite web|url=http://archives.news.yale.edu/v27.n33/story3.html|title=Yale Bulletin and Calendar - News|website=Yale University}}
=Group exhibitions=
- Imagine Art After, Tate Britain, London, October 2007 – January 2008. Work by Samuel, 'Muyiwa Osifuye, Addisalem Bizuwork, Estabrak, and Denis Hyka and Violana Murataj.
- Reflections on the Self: Five African Women Photographers, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, March–April 2011; Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University, February–March 2012;{{cite web|url=https://www.lancasterarts.org/whats-on/reflections-on-the-self|title=Reflections on the Self ‹ Events at Lancaster Arts|website=Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University}} The Brindley, November 2012–January 2013.{{cite web|url=https://www.redeye.org.uk/exhibitions/reflections-self-five-african-women-photographers|title=Reflections on the Self, five African women photographers|date=18 December 2012|website=Redeye}}{{cite web|url=https://www.artinliverpool.com/the-brindley-reflections-on-the-self-five-african-women-photographers/|title=The Brindley: Reflections on the Self, five African women photographers|first=Sinead|last=Nunes|date=24 November 2012|publisher=artinliverpool.com}} Work by Samuel, Hélène Amouzou, Majida Khattari, Zanele Muholi and Nontsikelelo Veleko. Curated by Christine Eyene.
References
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External links
- [https://www.theguardian.com/arts/gallery/2007/oct/29/imagineartafter A gallery at The Guardian that includes photographs from the exhibition Imagine Art After]
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Category:Alumni of the University of Westminster
Category:Eritrean emigrants to England
Category:People from Addis Ababa
Category:People from New Haven, Connecticut