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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      In the summer of 2022, I spent a month living with the Bedouin tribe of Awlad 'Ali
      along the north coast of Egypt looking into an increasing shift towards modernisation
      and independence among its young men. The days spent there resulted in the award
      winning ethnography, 'Between Sand and Sea.' During the last week of my stay
      I decided to stop writing and start making photographs, ones which ended
      up becoming this photo series.      
      Rahouma.
      Saïd and the tree he was born beneath.
      Abdulkarim.

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