An exhibition by artist Mohammed Ezz at Artellewa Art Space
from 12 to 30 jan . every day from 12 to 8pm except Sundays and Mondays.

“The portrait-photograph is a dosed field of forces. Four ‘ image-repertoires intersect here, oppose and distort each other. In front of the lens, I am at the same time: the one I think I am, the one I want others to think I am, the one the photographer thinks I am, and the one he makes use of to exhibit his art.” ? Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography.

The project was initially inspired by the ideation of Roland Barthes of the portrait-photograph, accompanied by visualizing these intersections in several visual works.
The project focuses on the studio portraits that are mostly related to identification documents and official papers which can last for a long time on documents such as passports, educational certificates and other documents. The officially of those photos transcend to more than just a single empty look; it turns a finite moment into an endless repetition.
A part of the project was accomplished by installing an elementary studio extended to the gallery to photograph people living around the area, besides other work shot in real studios around Cairo.

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Spring in Egypt
Egyptian contemporary art

Kevät Egyptistä
Egyptiläistä nykytaidetta

Äkkigalleria 32
Asemakatu 11a, Jyväskylä, Finland
23.–26.4.2015

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akkigalleria
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Exhibition photos

The growing Instagram mania in Egypt and around the world has triggered us at Photopia to host this interesting group talk by the best Egyptian Instagram photographers you would like to follow.

Get the chance to meet your favourite photographer Instagrammer in person during the group talk we are hosting.

Each one of these amazing artists will speak about his favorite work, his most popular Instagram posts, and some stories and secrets behind the scenes of shooting some of them.

Date: Saturday 28 March, 2015
Time: 6pm-9pm (break 15 minutes)
Free Admission
Venue: 15 Somal st., Korba, Heliopolis
Tel & mobile: 012 1338991 or 22904085

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The project implies the exchange of artists between Georgia and Egypt. It aims to unite contemporary artists on a common topic: how the development of cities and their transformations influence traditions and culture. Our main focus is on street markets, their transformations through the surrounding developments of the city and their role in society. How are these changes influencing urban segments and life of neighborhoods /streets, in which the markets are located.

The project start by question the necessity/the need of street markets, which is directly connected with ecology and healthy food, urban issues and city structure, traditions and culture, where all levels of society meet each other (woman and man, kids and adults, ethnic minorities and emigrants), who are building the city and are making it diverse.

Except it didn’t stop by this point and went to the general market horizon. After the co curators and the participated artists found out that MARKET POINT is an entrance to a full parallax life.

The findings and surroundings in Cairo and Tbilisi was the creative inspiration for this process. The first presentation of this project was shown in TBILISI September 2014 and The Exhibition of this project is shown in artellewa art space from 12 through 22nd of February 2015.

Exhibition includes:

Writer and Film producer Hossam Elouan, essay.
Anthropologist Mariam Shalvashvili, research.

Artworks of artists:
Ahmed Shawky, Alaa Abd El Hamid, Emad Ibrahim, Hamdy Reda, Jacueline George, Mako Kapanadze and Mohamed Ezz.

Archival essays and photographs from:
National Archives of Georgia
Photographer Guram Tsibakhashvili (Georgia).
Visual artists Nabil Boutros (Egypt).

Opening Thursday 19:00
the space open daily from 12 to 22 Feb.2015
Except Mondays.
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Talking Images
Ismail Fayed, Mai Al Shazly, Mohamed Ezz and Nadia Mounier

Talking Images aims to create space for in depth discussion with and between writers, artists and still or moving works. The first evening of this format is a conversation between critic, writer and researcher Ismail Fayed, artists and photographers Mai Al Shazly, Mohamed Ezz and Nadia Mounier, and the works selected for this occasion. Through close readings and discursive engagement Talking Images will try to linger and dwell, rather than rush through the wide range of topics and visual material.

Talking Images will be continued as a sporadic series with different guests throughout the year.

Language: The conversation will be in Arabic.

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June 22 – July 17
Saad Zaghlool Culture Center

Studio Khana foundation for contemporary art and cultural Development is honor to invite you to
the Exhibition “Have a Peaceful Day
the exhibition is held with cooperation of studio 15/3 and Saad Zaghloul Cultural center
The Exhibition will be inaugurated at the 22nd of June and will run till the 17th of July 2014

About Exhibition
I accidentally read a Book about the Egyptian History called ” Saving the nation by the reviling of the crises” by Al-Maqrizy and it was not a coincidence to find the poverty conflict Surrounding our society realty in the contemporary era was mention in details in some part of the book which speaks about the starvation History in Egypt
Thus when this land-sliding ordeal has lasted long, and in which the people have encountered variety of despicable torment; not only have a lot of people thought that there have never been as such tribulations before, nor have ever occurred something that compares to them, but, further, they said they can never demise or secede from them. That’s because they are people who don’t apprehend, are unaware of the causes of incidents, and are always going with the flow.
And he who contemplates this accident from beginning to end, and have come to know it foremost and uttermost, would realize that such ordeals that happen to the peoples are not but the rulers and leaders’ misdirecting and their negligence to public affairs. Despite the agonies that have passed, and after what has gone on during these malignant years, the matter still needs for declaration and demonstration and strives for further explanation and elaboration. So I have intended to reveal the causes from which this awful matter has sprung, and how this dreadful predicament has spread over the nation and the peoples. Thus I conclude with mentioning what remedies this plague and redeems that curse.

participant Artist :
Ahmed El-Samra
Eslam Kamal
Bassem Yousri
Tamer Shahin
Rania Fouad
Sama Wali
Soha El-Sergani
Alaa Abd El-Hamid
Mohamed Abdullah
Mohamed Ezz
Yasmein El-Meleegy

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Photopia is proud to host the third Cairo Slide Jam #3 on its premises in Heliopolis. Cairo Slide Jam was founded by British/Egyptian photographer Laura El-Tantawy.
El-Tantawy is represented by the prestigious VII Photo Agency through its Mentor Program.
The event is about photographers gathering, each one showing his work and briefly discussing their work/project being shown and then show the work via projector.
Slide Jam invites a guest curator for each event. Our gathering takes place each month, alternating between our guest hosts Photopia and the CIC (Contemporary Image Collective). Photopia is excited to host the February Slide Jam at its hub.
Our guest curator for the February Slide Jam#3 is photographer David Degner. He has chosen the theme of “Developing Photojournalism” – fine art and commercial photography in Egypt as his focus.
Developing Photojournalism:
After an intense period of growth in the Egypt’s photojournalism community we need to step back, change our perspective, and widen our view. Get your mind blown by these photographers on the extreme edges of the profession.

Photographers:
Mohammed Ezz
Dominique Mauri
John Perkins
Heba Khalifa
Yasser Alwan
Mireille El Magrissy
Bryonne Dunne
Rena Effendi
Myriam Abdelaziz

Date: February 21
Time: 7pm
Venue: Photopia: 15 Somal St., El Korba, Heliopolis, Cairo
Admission: Free

Call our friendly team for more info or inquiries: 012 1122 8991 or 2240 90 85

Photographing without a camera, a photo essay about my cell phone series of Downtown, featured in Panorama, Mada Masr.

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Panorama

By: Mai Elwakil.

The organizing committee of the 24th Youth Salon has picked “Crossing into the future” as the theme for this year’s edition. The annual state-sponsored competition, meant to promote emerging local artists, opened on December 15 at Cairo’s Palace of Arts with 177 artworks. But few of the 155 artists exhibiting this year reflect in direct ways on Egypt’s ongoing political and economic ‘transition’. The “Cellphone Diaries” are yet another response to street culture. Photographer Mohamed Ezz creates fantastic combinations of pictures he shot using his cellphone while wandering downtown Cairo’s streets. All printed in black and white, the photographs show the legs of a male model hovering over a street in mid air, shadows of cones from a street vendor’s cart stemming into the sky like dried palm trees, and a boat on the Nile river photographed from above with a shadow of buildings reflected underneath. The perspective Ezz presents of the city center is simultaneously exciting and unsettling.

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Highlights of the 24th Youth Salon

My latest work “Downtown – cell phone diaries” won the salon award in the 24th youth salon, and the acquisition prize from the commercial international bank (CIB).
The Youth Salon is the official annual competition and exhibition organized by the ministry of culture in Egypt for young visual artists.