Street Photography nominee

Hand surgery in June 2023 left me unable to hold my camera, much less use it. From photographing daily to just looking at my camera sitting alone on the table left me extremely sad. In an effort to avoid falling deep into a dark place I needed to find a way to make photographs. I took long walks along the street and found a way to capture images. The photographs were not like my usual work, but they seemed to reflect my mental state at the time. Though they were dark, they had an element of light, and it was the light that I needed to find.

Originally I studied painting and sculpture. My first photography course was undertaken primarily out of curiosity but it soon became my preferred creative medium.

From 1998 to 2001, I worked as an artist in Egypt on a project documenting inscriptions on temple walls. During that time I continued my photographic pursuits and produced a large body of work ranging from the intricate details of Islamic Cairo to the magnificent remains of the ancient Pharaonic monuments.

My photographs have been shown in both group and solo exhibitions and have won several awards.