Title: Cairo. Open city
Photographer(s): Various photographers
Writer(s): Florian Ebner, Constanze Wicke, Philip Rizk,Lara Baladi
Editor(s): Florian Ebner, Constanze Wicke
Designer(s): Nicola Reiter, Ahmed Kamel, Andrej Loll
Publisher(s): SPECTOR Book, Leipzig, Germany
Year: 2013
Print run:
Language(s): English, German, Arabian
Pages: 232
Size: 19 x 25 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition:
Print: Druckerei Alternburg Gmbh, Alternburg, Germany
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Egypt, 2011
ISBN: 9783940064707
"Cairo.Open City" examines the role of images in Egypt's ongoing revolution, from the outbreak of the Arab Spring to the present. The catalog includes a variety of approaches to the temporal media of photography and video, from the work of photojournalists, to recordings by activists and "citizen journalists," to documents collected by various artists. The different chapters will generate a dialogue between images: Newspaper cover images will sit alongside photo galleries of blogs, iconic images alongside the unknown images of people on the street, images of martyrs alongside those of long-term documentary projects. The catalog is released on the occasion of the exhibition at the Braunschweig Museum of Photography and includes essays by young authors from Cairo.