[2][3] It is a portrait of the artist and LGBT activist Ahmed Umar, who campaigns for gay visibility and seeks new forms of expression for their[A] Sudanese-Norwegian identity.

[6] Artist Ahmed Umar arrived in Norway in 2008 as a refugee from their native country, Sudan, which at the time was one of seven nations that executed people for same-sex conduct.

Seven years later, in 2015, when Umar came out on Facebook, as one of the first openly gay man from Sudan, a large portion of the Sudanese community turned against him, including relatives.

Moving to Norway, Umar quickly learns that even a liberal country can be dangerous for openly gay immigrants and is beaten during a Pride event.

This photographic project was later named “carrying the face of ugliness” (Arabic: شايل وش القباحة), which describes a person who does something unfamiliar, confronts an issue and takes the blame for it.