Rahima Gambo

Rahima Gambo (born 1986) is a Nigerian photographer and artist based in Abuja, Nigeria. In 2017 she was among 17 West African women photographers identified as 'changing the world's visual language'.

Gambo graduated from The University of Manchester in 2007 with a Bachelor's degree in Development Studies. In 2008 she received a Master's in Gender and Social Policy from London School of Economics. In 2014 she received another Master's in Journalism from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Later in 2014 she started her fellowship at Magnum Foundation - this program allows to develop a New York City based project and also help out the foundation's team at the office with the ongoing projects. During that time she developed the project "Exiled From Home". With that project, Gambo tells the story of Nigerian asylum seeker in New York, who left his home country because of the criminalization of same-sex relationship in Nigeria and persecution of LGBT-people.

In most of her projects Gambo uses visual storytelling, which she produces by creating mixed media, using illustration, photography, text, video, sculpture and installation as tools.

Her most famous project called "Education is Forbidden" (2015-2017). It combines various forms of multimedia. It touches upon struggles of young girls trying to get education in North-Eastern Nigeria and explores what it is like to be the student on the front lines. This project raises the deeper issue of post-colonial system of education, the role of a woman in Nigerian society and also confronts the Boko Haram conflict. This project was produced with the support of the International Women's Media Foundation.

She was awarded as a finalist in the LensCulture Emerging Talent Award 2016.

Gambo's work has been exhibited at the Nlele Institute Lagos Open Range, at the 2015 Bamako Biennale and at The Open Society Documentary Photography Project's exhibition 'Moving Walls 24: Here We Are', The Art Summit in Lagos 2018.