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How I Saw Egypt

Cairo, Giza, Luxor · December 2025 · 32 photographs

This isn't the Egypt of the guidebooks.

Egypt is a place where plans remain fragile. Anything can happen at any moment, or nothing at all.

A man in a blue-grey galabiya sits smoking in front of the Great Pyramid, not looking at it.

I · Cairo

Much of life unfolds in the streets here.

After some time, you almost become desensitised, simply because there is so much constantly happening in front of the lens.

A single seated figure in the courtyard of the Al-Azhar Mosque.

A man on crutches on a Cairo pavement.

A motorcycle mirror reflecting a street scene.

Two men seen from behind looking out over Tahrir Square.

A lone figure in the wide courtyard of the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As.

A cleaner vacuums the carpet in a high mosque hall.

The silhouette of a motorcyclist against the Citadel hill in haze.

A figure in white in the courtyard of the Muhammad Ali Mosque, the clock tower behind.

A man eating in a simple restaurant.

A man sits at an old wooden desk on the pavement.

II · Monuments

Avoiding the millionth tourist image felt almost impossible.

I therefore turned my attention to people, looking for moments where human presence could shift the familiar perspective and add a different foreground to these iconic structures.

A painted tomb ceiling in blue and gold.

A woman with a red umbrella in front of the Temple of Hatshepsut.

A guard looks up at a painted column in Medinet Habu.

A three-wheeled motorcycle passes headless pharaoh statues.

A man in a galabiya walks past a gate of Ramesses statues.

A woman in an orange dress between the giant columns of Karnak.

III · Luxor

Just one street away from the Nile promenade, an entirely different reality reveals itself.

An old man in a white galabiya stands alone on an empty street.

Schoolchildren walk past, a horse carriage and a motorcycle behind.

A man alone under a street lamp at night.

An old man with a walking stick on a wide, empty street.

A horse grazes at night in a residential street in Luxor.

The Nile Corniche in Luxor at sunset, families, children, feluccas.

A felucca on the Nile at dusk.

Luxor Temple at night, a minaret behind it and neon city lights beyond.

A hot-air balloon crew lights the burner, fire and silhouettes.

A farmhouse, a man at the fence, hot-air balloons in the morning sky.

A man laughs at a honey stall at night.

A dark lane, a fire, a family gathered around it.

Egypt gives a lot. But it asks for just as much in return.

Never before have I felt so close to ancient history.

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