Mogadishu is a place of ordinary life as well as extraordinary stories. These photographs leave room for both.
A wider view
In Uncanny Stranger’s photography, a city is more than a skyline. Roofs, streets, cups of tea and a passage through a market belong to the same visual story. The view from above offers scale; the smaller frames bring that scale back to a human rhythm.
Hospitality in the frame
Two cups of Somali tea sit beside simple snacks. Beside the open city view, this small arrangement changes the pace of looking. Hospitality becomes something visible: a shared surface, a little warmth, a reason to pause.
Looking beyond a single story
Abdullahi Mohamud’s artist biography describes a practice that looks at Mogadishu beyond crisis, with attention to family, cultural presence and urban life. Suuqa Beerta and the city photographs give that approach a visual form: light enters a passage; traffic fills a street; life continues in detail.
