List of photobooks by photographer El-Tantawy, Laura

Laura El-Tantawy is an Egyptian photographer. With her characteristically painterly and impressionistic eye on reality, Laura explores social and environmental issues pertaining to her background.
Photo : © self-portrait




Laura El-Tantawy is an Egyptian photographer. With her characteristically painterly and impressionistic eye on reality, Laura explores social and environmental issues pertaining to her background.
Photo : © self-portrait


She was born in Worcestershire, England to Egyptian parents. She attended high school in Saudi Arabia, started university in Cairo, Egypt and completed her degree in the US. Living between East and West for much of her life has been a source of both immense enlightenment and considerable anxiety — contemplating notions of home, identity, culture and ultimately, 'the self'. It is through the allure of photography as an artistic medium of limitless boundaries that she chooses to explore these themes. 




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  • .Two copies back in stock : #323 and #325.Presentation by the artist: " « Enclosed between four walls, the sound of silence never seemed louder. It’s claustrophobic. I wait for the phone to ring, check for emails obsessively, eat everything out of the fridge. The hunger remains. I feel like if I dig my hand deep into my soul, I will find nothing. The...

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  • .In stock.Publisher's presentation: "Post-Script revisits Laura El-Tantawy’s journey through Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square five years from Egypt’s momentous revolution and one year after the release of her self-published monograph, In the Shadow of the Pyramids. The pocket-sized publication features previously unpublished images and written reflections...

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  • Presentation on the artist's website : "On January 25, 2011, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets across the country demanding the fall of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled the country for nearly 30 years. This was only the beginning. More than four years on, الشعب (The People) chronicles how citizens in the Arab world’s largest...

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  • .Sold out. Presentation by the artist: "In the Shadow of the Pyramids by Laura El-Tantawy is a first person account exploring memory and identity. With images spanning 2005 to 2014, what began as a look in the mirror to understand the essence of Egyptian identity expanded into an exploration of the trials and tribulations of a turbulent nation. The result...

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