Ella Mayamothi Sommeil is a British-based photographer, director and producer whose work moves between fine art and commissioned contexts. Informed by her Guadeloupean and Bangladeshi heritage, her practice explores themes of comfort, identity and displacement; often engaging with the quiet complexity of longing and cultural memory.

Working with medium format photography, moving image and sound, she creates spaces for reflection, intimacy and resistance. Through layered visual worlds built from archives, textiles, books and landscapes; she considers the afterlives of colonialism and the aesthetics of experience.


Ella’s process is both intuitive and research-led, currently an artist-in-residence at Mayfield Depot, developing an archival project linking the historic Black Angel club night to traditions of cultural resistance born on the plantation.



Resolve Collective + Bloc Projects ‘Plus One’ artist in residence 2025
adidas Originals Creator Network North 2025
Roundhouse Film Fund Recipient 2024
U+I Landsec artist in residence 2023





mayamothi4@gmail.com