Beginnings and Endings
Beginnings and Endings grew out of a period when everything around me felt unstable. Cairo was changing at a pace I could barely keep up with; buildings disappearing overnight, neighborhoods reshaped, familiar streets becoming unrecognizable. I began walking the city again, not to document it, but to understand what it means to remain in a place that no longer feels the same.
Her streets started to feel like fragments of memory. Like a lost love, or a loved one who has died but their presence still lingers in every corner. The city felt both there and not there. Familiar, yet unreachable. I wasn’t only grieving the physical changes, but also the versions of myself that existed within it.
Endings and beginnings began to blur into one another, colliding in a storm of grief, rage, and love. that rage is born from that very love and this love has nowhere to go now. It lingers in the air - impossible to ignore and refuses to fade no matter how much we wish it would.The camera became a way to slow things down, to sit with that tension - with the dust, the silence, the unfinished structures, and the light that still finds its way through.
This project is less about closure and more about coexistence. About learning that grief is another form of love, and that sometimes belonging is not about returning to what was, but about accepting what remains.
The Project is supported by Magnum Foundation and AFAC Arab fund for Arts and Culture.
