Malin Fezehai is an Eritrean/Swedish New York-based photographer, filmmaker, and visual reporter. She has worked in over 40 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and America. Malin is a National Geographic Explorer, and in 2023, she became a Climate Pledge grantee and is working on a project about adaptation to living on water.

Her career started in her native Sweden, where she studied photography before moving to New York to attend the International Center of Photography. Her work focuses on communities of displacement and dislocation around the world. In 2018, she worked at The New York Times as a visual reporter for the Surfacing column. She focused on innovative visual storytelling across desks and disciplines during this one-year residency.

Malin was commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme to photograph survivors of violent extremism across Sub-Saharan Africa and published a book titled “SURVIVORS” to remind audiences about the growth of violent extremism and its devastating impact on the civilian population.

Malin has received a 2015 World Press Photo Award, the Wallis Annenberg Prize, and was named one of the 30 Emerging Photographers to watch in 2015 by Photo District News. Her image depicting a Wedding of Eritrean Refugees in Israel was the first iPhone image ever to receive a World Press Photo Award. In 2017, World Press Photo invited her to serve as one of the Masters to teach at a workshop for West African photographers in Accra, Ghana.

Some of her clients include The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Apple, Nike, The Malala Foundation, United Nations, and WaterAid.