Mulugeta Ayene is an Ethiopian photojournalist and a fine art photographer living in Addis Ababa.
His work covers a wide range of subjects; the effects that social and spatial transformations have on one’s identity and social relations are recurrent themes in Mulugeta’s work.
Mulugeta is currently working for the Associated Press (AP) and his photographic career includes regular assignments for prominent international organizations such as UNICEF, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the International Rescue Committee, to mention a few.
Mulugeta’s works won him multiple awards including the first prize in photojournalism in the ‘Excellence in Journalism’ competition organized by the Foreign Correspondents Association of Ethiopia (FCAE) in 2011 and 2012.