In 2011, she graduated from ECAL/University of art and design Lausanne, obtaining a BA in photography. For two years her research focused on African identity through Western eyes. In 2010, the jury of the festival of photography Planche(s) Contact of Deauville, chaired by Bettina Rheims, awarded her the prize of the students of photography schools. Her work has been published in Numéro, New York, Foam, British Journal of Photography, Vice, Interview. Her diploma project “Ya Kala Ben” has been exhibited at the Lausanne contemporary art complex in 2011 and won the ECAL, BCV and the Elinchrom prizes. In 2012 Namsa was awarded the Hyeres PhotoGlobal Prize for which she received a scholarship to study for one year at the school of visual art in New York, by the beginning of 2014 she’ll head to South Africa to work on her next project.