Senayt Samuel

Senayt Samuel (born 1969) 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 and was raised in Addis Ababa and New Haven, Connecticut. She studied Art History and Fine Arts at Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, and at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. She moved to London in 2002, where she gained an MA degree in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster.

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.

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. The Brindley, November 2012–January 2013. Work by Samuel, Hélène Amouzou, Majida Khattari, Zanele Muholi and Nontsikelelo Veleko. Curated by Christine Eyene.