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Yasser Alwan
“The awakening of a radical reality”? Reflections on PhotoCairo 5
![[From A Monument of Buzzwords, 2012, by Samir El-Kordy.]](/content_images/3/sm_MonumentOfBuzzwords_SamerElKordy.jpg "[From A Monument of Buzzwords, 2012, by Samir El-Kordy.]")
(PhotoCairo 5 was held between 14 November and 17 December 2012. It was organized by the Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo and curated by Mia Jankowicz.) PhotoCairo 5 was not photography and not Cairo. It was a mélange of video, conceptual art, installations, and photographic productions by local and international artists that generally required knowledge of the English language and international art practices and theories to be comprehensible. Indeed, this would have ...
Keep Reading »Imagining Tahrir
![[Tamer, mason from Beheira province. Tahrir Square. Photo by Yasser Alwan.]](/content_images/3/sm_Alwan1jpg_8163349276_o.jpg "[Tamer, mason from Beheira province. Tahrir Square. Photo by Yasser Alwan.]")
I. Egyptians saw themselves for the first time through their own eyes in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January and February 2011, and reveled in that encounter. Participating in and recording that experience was to become part of the consciousness of a community that was ready to move heaven and earth to restructure Egyptian society for the better. The consciousness was individual in that it established one person’s experience among the crowd, it was moral because recording ...
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Yasser Alwan is an American-Iraqi photographer who has been living in Cairo for 20 years.
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