Ugbad Abdi is Lensed by Peter Lindbergh for Vogue Arabia October 2019

Ugbad Abdi is Lensed by Peter Lindbergh for Vogue Arabia October 2019

Rising model Ugbad Abdi poses in ‘A Legend has fallen and a new legacy RISES’, a tribute to famed photographer Peter Lindbergh, who captured these images. Katie Trotter styles Ugbad for Vogue Arabia October 2019.

Vogue Arabia chats with the refugee who was born in Kismayo, Somalia before fleeing to Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, where she lived for nine years. Ugbad’s family eventually relocated to Iowa, living in one of America’s oldest Muslim communities.