Aïda Muluneh

Aïda Muluneh (1974) left her homeland at a young age and grew up in Yemen, England, Cyprus and Canada. Annoyed by the distorted image the world was getting due to the famine, she decided to focus on photography. In 2000, she graduated with a degree from the Department of Communications with a major in Film from Howard University in Washington DC. After graduating, she published in The Washington Post and The New York Times, among others, and participated in the exhibition Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora. She won the European Union Prize at the Bamako festival, and is the founder of DESTA for Africa, a non-profit organization providing photography training in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.