Ebrahim Bahaa-EldinPhotographer, curator and anthropologist, between Cairo and Paris

Biography

Ebrahim Bahaa-Eldin is a photographer, curator and anthropologist based between Cairo and Paris. His work is driven by an anthropological inquiry into space, time and memory, and how we construct our belonging to them. He is currently concerned with the binary of care and conquest in contexts of urban topography, personal histories and cultural expressions.

His practice is entirely analogue and intentionally slow. He photographs and hand-prints every image himself, allowing the materiality of the process to echo his central questions about time, change and belonging.

He is the founder of Sūph Books, an independent photobook publisher based in Cairo.

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      Ebrahim Bahaa-Eldin






      Dépouiller(2025-Present)
      What to Do When you Cannot Hold a Mountain Between Your Arms? (2021-Present)

      Siwa for M Le Monde (2026)
      Cairo for Financial Times HTSI? (2025)


      Ben Weaver for The World of Interiors(2025)

      Khashm Al ‘Aish (Mouth of Bread)(2022)


      Selected Portraits



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      For the July issue of The World of Interiors, I was commissioned by
      Ben Weaver to respond to an open-ended brief: to photograph an outdoor fabric.

      To remind myself of my role, which has always been that of an intermediary,
      I didn't want to keep the fabric to myself. Instead, I decided to regift it to
      Mahmoud, a farmer I've known since childhood in my grandparents' village
      in Sharqia, Egypt.

      Since their worlds are unlikely to collide, I wanted to give the reader of this
      issue a chance to see Mahmoud, and in turn, to offer Mahmoud the space
      to represent himself here, with his new carpet.      

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