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Named after a stray dog with whom he bonded during his military service, the Ones to Watch winner showcases work that is ‘poetic and personal’
In Shame Less, Geoushy creates space for participants to voice their experiences of sexual violence, challenging the pervasiveness of gender-based violence in her home country of Egypt and beyond
Tracing her own Bedouin ancestry, Eldalil documented the daily lives of Egypt’s nomad community
Lina Geoushy’s ongoing project hopes to fight for gender equality in the nation’s labour laws
The Melbourne-based photographer traversed Egypt investigating the demise of its tourist industry in the aftermath of the Arab Spring
Pannell plans to visit Egypt and explore the decline of its once thriving tourism industry in the aftermath of the Arab Spring
In 2011, Chatelin, a successful photojournalist and author of the photobook Israel Borderline (2008), was sent to Libya to cover the uprising at the beginning of the war. After a few months he became frustrated with the work he was producing and decided to head in a different direction. Switching to a large format camera, he travelled to the Egyptian desert and began looking at the impact of shifting economies on the landscape and territories surrounding the nucleus of action. This work has also seen explorations to Detroit, western China and Siberia, which, like Egypt and Libya, are places with diverse histories and contrasting geographies but which are fixed in outside perceptions with a single vision.
Swedish documentary photographer Loulou d’Aki’s Make a Wish has been a long time in the making. The project, which was shortlisted for the Grand Prix at Lodz Fotofestiwal this year, revolves around the aspirations and dreams of young people across the globe, recorded in a sweeping compilation of portraits and landscapes. Shot alongside commissions for international publications such as Le Monde, The New York Times and Die Zeit, it evolved over a number of years, charting the photographer’s life on the move.
When in July 2013 Matthew Connors turned the key in the lock of his Brooklyn…