Samia Meah
is a 33-year-old Bangladeshi British photographer, born and raised in the heart of London. She has been working in this industry for 18 years thus far.
Samia is a writer and an activist too, with a background in the charity sector. Her photography and written journalism has been published in the UK.
She is passionate about eradicating systemic oppression as social injustice. Her activism has taken her to speak on many stages, multiple times including alongside HRH The Prince of Wales and also across national TV, radio and print media.
You can hire Samia as a consultant to advise on your photographic business or on best practice for inclusivity and diversity for your charity, school, company or organisation. She does not offer free advice and believes you should pay people for their labour and expertise.
She can speak to topics from lived experience and relate it back to a wider discussion on systemic issues on a variety of topics including, but not limited to:
● poverty ● mental health ● youth homelessness ● being a young carer ● being diaspora ● being on the child protection list ● being working class ● barriers of accessing higher education and work ● exploitation ● discrimination ● difficultly accessing help via state services such as social services, local authorities and the NHS ● lack of representation in academia, the photographic industry + in print industries
Working in the community teaching photography has been one of the greatest joys of her life!
Let’s connect
If you think you and Samia should work together, click the link below to email her:
📍London, UK
🎓MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (University of the Arts London, London College of Communication) + 🎓BA Contemporary Photographic Practice (University for the Creative Arts & Maryland Institute College of Art) + 🎓 FD in Art and Design (University of the Arts London, London College of Communication)
