MIRAPROSPEKT » Cairo

WHERE IS THE GO?

miraprospekt — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:00:31 +0000

Photographs from Cairo by Jan Michalko

I am interested in how movement through cityscapes influences people, how architecture and light make shifting patterns over the surface of the city, how there are atmospheric blackholes of new feelings. I am interested in the habits of a city. In these photographs, narrative exists no more than a moment. Context is the content: how Cairo’s daily life looks.

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Group Project
SAFARI SIZE
Photographs from Cairo

Four photographic positions show a different and personal view on the Egyptian Metropol Cairo.
A subtle and personal presentation of reality connects the photographic document in all four works.

THE ARTIFICIAL SKY

miraprospekt — Sat, 19 May 2012 12:00:07 +0000

Andreas Pein

All pictures were taken in
Cairo between 2009 and 2012

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Group Project
SAFARI SIZE
Photographs from Cairo

Four photographic positions show a different and personal view on the Egyptian Metropol Cairo.
A subtle and personal presentation of reality connects the photographic document in all four works.

TWO WEEKS IN MAY

miraprospekt — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:24:24 +0000

Cairo before the revolution

by Holger Biermann

I walked through this seemingly endless city in may 2009. These photographs suggest more than any of my words could possibly tell. It’s the gaze of a stranger, an aimless tourist prowling on the streets.

I weren’t on familiar terms with Cairo’s inhabitants. Their ideas, political or private views remained unknown to me. Mubarak ruled and that was it. To think of a radical change or a revolution seemed improbable to me then.

Once I got arrested for snapping a huge dark limousine in the parliament district. The cops confiscated my film and my camera before they locked me up. The precincts room was small and damp but orderly. I was sitting on a wooden chair and watched an incessant company of flies. After 2 hours the officer returned my camera and released me with an admonition back to the streets. But otherwise?

I remember vividly that the oppressive heat and a permanent diarrhea were too often master of the situation..

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Group Project
SAFARI SIZE
Photographs from Cairo

Four photographic positions show a different and personal view on the Egyptian Metropol Cairo.
A subtle and personal presentation of reality connects the photographic document in all four works.

SHARIA RAMSES

miraprospekt — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:50:10 +0000

Photographs from Cairo by Georg Knoll

As one of the main axes the multi-level-street Sharia Ramses cuts a big part of central Cairo. On three short-trips I followed this „vene“, discovering parts of the arabian Megacity in the days before the revolution, winding between „Ramses“ and „Sharia“, 2006 to 2010.

contact: email web

Group Project
SAFARI SIZE
Photographs from Cairo

Four photographic positions show a different and personal view on the Egyptian Metropol Cairo.
A subtle and personal presentation of reality connects the photographic document in all four works.

EXHIBITION / SAFARI SIZE gallery view

miraprospekt — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:30:05 +0000

gallery view
KULTURPALAST WEDDING INTERNATIONAL
January 2012, Freienwalder Strasse 20
13359 Berlin, Germany

Photographs from Cairo by Holger Biermann,
Jan Michalko and Andreas Pein

EXHIBITION / SAFARI SIZE

miraprospekt — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:00:29 +0000

Photographs from Cairo by Holger Biermann,
Georg Knoll, Jan Michalko and Andreas Pein.

Opening 27.01.2012, 8 pm.
Exhibition 28.01 – 05.02.2012, Sat/Sun. 4 – 8 pm
at Kulturpalast Wedding International
Freienwalder Strasse 20
13359 Berlin, Germany
www.kulturpalastwedding.com
info[at]kulturpalastwedding.com

EXHIBITION city portraits/2/Kairo

miraprospekt — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:57:24 +0000

Photographs from Cairo by Holger Biermann,
Jan Michalko and Andreas Pein.

Opening 15 april 2011
Group show 16 april – 08 june 2011

AE Gallery
Hermann-Elflein-Strasse 18
Luisenforum
14467 Potsdam
Germany