Somi Nwandu was born in 1993 in Maryland, U.S.A. and grew up in Enugu, eastern Nigeria, as well as in the US. From an early age she was fascinated with photography and spent years exploring digital software alongside expressing her creativity through writing, painting, drawings and fashion sketches.

She moved to New York at the age of 17 to study Fashion Design, Business Management, and Trade and Marketing at the Fashion Institute of Technology and graduated in 2016.

Somi worked in New York City with celebrated international fashion brands like Tom Ford, Macy’s and Alexander Wang as well as Ruff ‘n’ Tumble in Nigeria. Somi is currently completing an MA in Global Creative and Cultural Industries at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, while actively pursuing her art in photography and fashion