Umayyah Cable is a freelance documentary photographer based in San Francisco, California. She graduated from Smith College in 2005 with a degree in American Studies and has spent the last several years independently pursuing documentary and portrait projects. Umayyah's dedication to documentary photography is fueled by her passion for political and social justice. On a more basic level, she uses photography as a medium of understanding; a visual mechanism through which people may discover things and thoughts that are normally shielded from them by the dominant hegemony.

Umayyah is also a master printer for a small studio of family portrait photographers in San Francisco. While not working in the darkroom or the digital lab, she focuses on her own projects, maintains a political blog, and spends precious last moments with her Polaroid cameras. She is available for editorial, documentary, portrait and event assignments.

Umayyah Cable
umayyah dot cable at gmail dot com