Nadia Kamel

This is the first monograph by Randa Shaath. Her work over the last two decades includes three series of black-and-white photography: the lives of people who live on the rooftops of Cairo city, portraits of a cross-section of society (from painters to parking attendants), and documentation of the lives of farmers and fishermen who live on Qursaya island in the Nile, Cairo.In three series of black-and-white pictures, Randa Shaath meets and photographs the people who live in Cairo, Egypt's capital city. Under the Same Sky--Rooftops of Cairo documents the lives of people who inhabit the rooftops of the city's apartments. Profiles portrays a variety of local citizens, including painters and writers, poets and dancers, film directors and parking lot attendants. And In the Heart of the Nile captures the lives of the farmers and fishermen who live on the island Qursaya in the Nile, where the river runs through the center of Cairo. This monograph by Randa Shaath is part of the publications series being developed parallel to the project Contemporary Arab Representations.… (más)