Aïda Muluneh

Aïda Muluneh (born 1974, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian photographer, educator, and entrepreneur known for her Afrofuturist photography that incorporates vibrant colours and body painting to create surreal scenes. Muluneh won the European Union Prize at African Photography Encounters and the CRAF International Award of Photography. In 2020, she was given the Award for Photographic Curatorship of the Royal Photographic Society. In 2019, Aïda became the first black woman to co-curate the Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition, and in 2020, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the World Food Program. To mark this momentous occasion, Muluneh created a collection that embodied her artistic vision. Specifically, focusing on displaying how hunger has been used as a weapon of war throughout history.

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