IKRAM ABDULKADIR
Born in Nairobi, KE, 1995
Lives and works in Malmö, SE
Ikram Abdulkadir is a Swedish-Somali photographer based in Malmö, working within a documentary photographic tradition. Her photographs emerge from close relationships with the people and environments around her, portraying sisters, friends, and members of her community in everyday urban and domestic settings. Through a quiet and attentive visual language, Abdulkadir explores intimacy, friendship, sisterhood, and belonging, often focusing on subtle gestures and exchanges that shape shared experience.
Ikram Abdulkadir lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. Born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1995, she has presented solo exhibitions at Fotografiska Stockholm (2023), Centrum för fotografi Stockholm (2024), Arbetets museum, Norrköping (2025), and Moderna Museet Malmö (2026). Her work has also been shown internationally, including at Les Rencontres d’Arles (2023), and is represented in several public collections, including Moderna Museet, Malmö Konstmuseum, Fotografiska Stockholm, and Nationalmuseum Stockholm.
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