The Empty Quarter

    A vast desert spanning a total area of 650,000 square kilometers, the Empty Quarter is a magnificent sea of dunes that have been untouched by mankind. This sprawling and beautiful desert spills into the United Arab Emirates, parts of Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Yemen.      Five types of dunes make up the Empty…

Perception by eL Seed

  Perception by eL Seed In the Neiberourhoud of Manshiyat Nasr in Cairo, the Coptic community of Zaraeeb has been collecting the trash of the city for decades. Even though they are marginaziled because  of their association with the trash, they have in fact managed to develop one of the world’s most efficient and highly…

Handprints of Blood

Street photography is all about telling stories.  “Learning what you don’t want to photograph is only half of the battle, though a large half. It’s also the half which can be put into words.”  Handprints of blood, an Egyptian ritual to dip hands in the blood of the sacrificial animal and to put prints all…

PERCEPTION

     Manshiyat Nasser, or as it is more popularly known, “Garbage City,“ is a slum settlement with a population of around 70,000 in Cairo, Egypt. The inhabitants, mostly Coptic Christians, have filled this area for the past 70 years. These informal garbage collectors, called the  Zabbaleen or “Garbage people,“ collect the garbage of Cairo’s…

Abandoned Village

Home is not a place. Home is a feeling. Abandoned homes have a certain charm and mistery. Going there we often find ourselves imagining how their previous occupants lived their lives. Al Madam, also known as the ghost town is an old abandoned village in the desert. As the dunes kept on creeping on the houses…