Maheder Haileselassie

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese (born 1990) is an Ethiopian artist and photographer.

Life Haileselassie was born and raised in Addis Ababa in 1990. She studied civil engineering at the university. Her interest became photography in the final year of her study and by 2013 her primary interest was photography.

She runs the Center for Photography to encourage younger photographers in Ethiopia.

Haileselassie won the 2023 Contemporary African Photography Prize.

She was chosen as one of the BBC's 100 inspiring women in 2024. The BBC and The Guardian drew attention to her work in 2024 where she documents the effect of climate change on young girls. The rate of child marriage in Somalia had more than doubled as families try to cope with the shortage of food and water. Her photographs show the girls and they document the effect of the drought on the landscape.