About Hamdy Reda

Visual artist, photographer, graphic designer, curator and the founder of (artellewa art space)
live and work in Cairo, Traveling between Bern, Oslo and Paris.
Graduated from fine arts faculty – Hellwan University. Egypt 1997.
Had 9 solo exhibitions and more than 25 collectives.
Got a lot of awards, residences and workshops local and internationally.

For me photography is not about what you choose to shoot and how good an image may be. It is a way to express emotions and experience life. It is more about my interaction with others, or even different environments.

Sometimes I take photos because I feel the intimacy of the moment with another person, a place, a certain time of the day, or even an idea that might come to my mind. And later when I start looking at them again and again it reassures me that my first impressions were right in most of the cases.
My photographic diaries, or my visual biography I may say. When I look at these photos I feel like reading a collection of short stories, or even poems, and to be more precise diaries.
They are my diaries.

Photography Equipment

I had worked not only with digital but also with older types of cameras, ranging from the first kind of camera – the camera obscura – to the different sorts of analog cameras that I used to make photographs with for many years. I'm also interested in alternative processing techniques in developing my photographs.