Items related to photography

Spanish photographer documents Egypt's rich tradition of Moulids celebrations
Noha Moustafa 27 Mar 2013
An amateur Spanish photographer with a passion for reporting, Javier Menendez Bonillahas traveled the world and lived...
Courtesy of Heba Farid
Playful exhibition offers a rare chance to revisit Egypt’s photographic studios
Jenifer Evans 05 Dec 2012
Coming up to the former Hotel Viennoise on the third floor of the ramshackle but very grand and spacious 7 Champollion...
Reading History exhibition at CULTNAT: from Na'ima al-Misriya collection
Egypt’s photographic archiving needs to shape up
Jenifer Evans 08 Aug 2012
An increasing awareness of Egypt's photographic heritage may be damaging that very legacy, as flawed archiving...
For its official opening, Photopia is holding a 10-day travel exhibition of photography.
Photopia aspires to be Cairo hub for photographers
Steven Viney 01 Aug 2012
In an alley off a Korba side street, Photopia, a new venue that specializes in exhibiting and engaging the public with...
Like other participants at the 2012 Egypt Photo Marathon, Khaked al-Bakry head out to Tahrir Square to take pictures, attracting a curious crowd.
Conversing with the city in the Egypt Photo Marathon
Helen Stuhr-Rommereim 27 May 2012
The Egypt Photo Marathon is a mental and visual challenge, a game in which the competition is equal parts endurance and...
In 'Dust,' the past is present
Helen Stuhr-Rommereim 16 May 2012
Xenia Nikolskaya’s collection of photographs, “Dust,” currently on display in the Townhouse first...
This photo dated 6 December, shows Tarana Akbari crying near dead and injured people after a suicide bomber targetted Shiite worshippers during a religious ceremony outside the Abul Fazel shrine in Kabul where Shia Muslims were marking the Day of Ashura. Agence France-Presse photographer Massoud Hossaini won the agency's first Pulitzer Prize for the picture on 16 April 2012 in the breaking news photography category "for his heartbreaking image of a girl crying in fear after a suicide bomber's attack at a crowded shrine in Kabul," the committee announced.
AFP's Massoud Hossaini wins Pulitzer for breaking news photography
AFP 17 Apr 2012
Agence France-Presse and the news websites Huffington Post and Politico each won their first Pulitzer Prizes as the...
The Egypt Photo Marathon, held on 14 April 2012, had the meeting point for participating photographers at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zamalek.
Egypt Photo Marathon: A race for images
Virginie Nguyen 15 Apr 2012
On a hot spring day in Cairo, a group of amateur and professional photographers walked the city’s streets, trying...
Detail of photography from the "Anachrony" exhibition Copyrights to Nermine Hammam
Catharsis in muted tones: Nermine Hammam's 'Anachrony'
Ellen Brooks 01 Apr 2012
The last time Nermine Hammam’s work hung in a gallery in Cairo, the streets of Egypt spoke a different language....
From "Giza Threads," a photography exhibition by Rana ElNemr at the Townhouse gallery
Following the current of the city, Q&A with Rana ElNemr
Helen Stuhr-Rommereim 19 Mar 2012
Before Rana ElNemr began her celebrated artistic career, she worked as a photojournalist; a sense of journalistic...