Muse Mohammed Photography

Muse Mohammed is a Canadian photographer focused on migration and humanitarian issues worldwide. Largely self-taught, he developed his skills in photography alongside his studies in International Development and later worked in Mogadishu, Somalia, working with a local NGO while also documenting daily life in the horn of Africa.

Muse currently works for the UN Migration Agency (IOM) in Switzerland as its main photographer and leading multimedia storyteller focusing on current and ongoing humanitarian emergencies worldwide. In recent years, he has covered almost every major humanitarian crisis worldwide as well as underreported ones, and climate change. His passion is with people and exploring ways to convey their stories of hardships and triumphs with dignity and compassion.

He has worked in over 40 countries around the globe with his work featured on news media outlets including The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, BBC, CBC, ABC Australia, and exhibitions such as Swiss Press Photo 2018 and 2020.