Oscar nominated filmmaker and NAACP award winner, Misan Harriman, is an entrepreneur and social activist, and one of the most widely shared photographers of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Misan Harriman visiting Somaliland with Save the Children in 2022
Misan is one of the most widely shared visual storytellers of this age and also the first black person in the 104-year history of British Vogue to shoot the cover of its September issue. In July 2021 he commenced his appointment as Chair of the Southbank Centre, London.
From documenting historic moments to photographing high profile celebrities, including Meghan Markle & Prince Harry, Angelina Jolie, Jay-Z, Tom Cruise, Cate Blanchett and Olivia Coleman, Misan is a photographer of extraordinary range. His striking images have featured in Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar and The Telegraph among others. In July 2025, Misan’s first solo photography exhibition launched at London’s Hope 93 Gallery, to huge critical acclaim, The exhibition features over 100 prints documenting protests over the last 5 years.
Misan has been working with Save the Children since 2020 and was appointed as an ambassador in 2022 after returning from Somalia where he visited our work supporting those impacted by the food and climate crisis. He works tirelessly to amplify our work and the rights of children across the globe - highlighting, to his large and engaged social media community, the atrocities faced by children caught up in conflicts in Sudan, DRC and Gaza.
As a notable photographer, Harriman has generously worked on several Save the Children visits and projects, including photographing the Duke and Duchess of Sussex as they visited with Save the Children Youth Ambassadors in Nigeria, spearheading a poignant photography project in Cairo, where he led a special photography workshop for a group of ten Palestinian children from Gaza who are being supported by Save the Children.
The results are a stunning collection of visual diaries, chronicling young lives being rebuilt after the traumas of war. refugee children from Gaza. The children, aged 11-13 were able to tell their own stories through the medium of photography. The incredible photo series, released during World Refugee Week, shows their lives, dreams, and aspirations during the harrowing war on their homeland.
