Photography was her language. It was how she bridged the gap between the memories of her grandmother’s home in Hamar Weyne and the brisk, structured life of the American Midwest. She was preparing for her first gallery show, titled Hooyooyin: The Matriarchs , a series of black-and-white portraits celebrating Somali motherhood.
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To look for pictures of Somali relationships is to look for a ghost that is very much alive. It is a love that lives in the margins of photos, in the space between two prayer mats, in the shared muscle memory of escaping a warzone together. Photography was her language
