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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    © 2026 Ebrahim Bahaa-Eldin
      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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      Dépouiller is a photobook in the making which merges documentary
      photography with fiction writing. It navigates a city during two different
      timelines, through the eyes and the words of two polar observers:
      a father and a son who almost never met.


      Dépouiller is an attempt to examine how the urban and the familial shape
      one another. It argues that our relationship to one informs the other, through
      joined processes of construction and deconstruction, familiarity and
      estrangement, attachment and indifference, stability and precariousness.



         


      The inquiry at the book’s foundation is fatherhood and memory making
      and unmaking in cities undergoing rapid and irreversible urban transformation.
      Cities remade so thoroughly that the version a father knew no longer exists in the
      version a son encounters. The notebook is both a material object and a figure for
      this condition: fragmentary, damaged, written in a language that requires translation,
      describing streets and buildings and people that may or may not still be there.

      Dépouiller takes that process of inheritance and loss as its structural principle.
      Marseille is implicitly where it takes place, yet the format and the narrative
      is constructed to allow it to be read through any city.







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