Muse Mohammed Photography

Muse Mohammed is a Canadian visual storyteller whose work focuses on migration, displacement, and humanitarian issues around the world. Largely self-taught, he developed his visual practice alongside academic training in International Development, combining field experience with a strong editorial approach to storytelling.

Early in his career, Muse worked in Mogadishu, Somalia with a local NGO, documenting daily life in the Horn of Africa while gaining first-hand experience of humanitarian contexts.

He currently works for the UN Migration Agency (IOM) in Switzerland, where he leads multimedia storytelling for global humanitarian operations. His work spans photography, video, and editorial narratives, covering both large-scale emergencies and underreported crises, including the human impacts of climate change.

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