Mercy Moktar works with image and text. Starting with the snapshot-seeming image, she uses portraiture and observational humour in her work to reflect queer and trans experience with a disarming intimacy. 

Moktar was a recipient of the Studio Voltaire/LOEWE Foundation award and the Montez Press Writers Residency. Her writing and photography has been published by Montez Press, Pilot Press, oestrogeneration and gal-dem. Currently, she is a scholarship student at Faber Academy, where she is working on her first novel.

She lives and works in London.

She/Her

@mercymoktar

Photo by Zaven Rose/@lovestruckbear