Next to Here
Young Photographers from North Africa and the Middle East

Exhibition: 
28.9.-26.10.2014
Opening: 28.9.2014, 19.00
Contemporary Images Collective 
4th Floor, 22 Abdel Khalek Tharwat
Downtown, Cairo 11638
free admission
Information: +20 2 25759877
info@cairo.goethe.org
info@ciccairo.com


The exhibition NEXT TO HERE presents 18 photographic works by young documentary photographers from North Africa and the Middle East. The works originated in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and in the United Arab Emirates. The works were produced in the context of 10 photography workshops in MENA organized by the Goethe-Institut and its local partners in 2013 and 2014.

The Cairo workshop, led by Rana El Nemr and Jens Liebchen, was a cooperation between Goethe-Institut Kairo and Contemporary Images Collective and resulted in an exhibition earlier this year (LAYER OF GREEN).

NEXT TO HERE is a selection from a total of 74 photographic works. It offers visual narratives about the world right at the doorstep - “next to here” and in our time. These photographic works explore landscape, both urban and rural, and they portray people. All of them share a decided interest in the world surrounding us, and in the people who live in it.

In the months to come, the exhibition will be presented in Dubai, Khartum, Amman, Ramallah and other cities of the Arab world. 

Curator
Constanze Wicke (Leipzig, Germany)

Photographers
KARIM ABOUKELILA
ELSADIG MOHAMED AHMED
MARYAM AHMED
MAI AL SHAZLY
QAÏS ASSALI
FATIMA AL YOUSEF
SHADI BAKER
OTHMAN BENJAKKAL
MEJDI EL BEKRI
TAREK EL MARZOUGUI
GAILAN HAJI OMAR
AWEL HAOUATI
ALAAEDDIN JABER
HUSSAM MANASRAH
NADIA MOUNIER
MANAR MOURSI
BORIS OUE
MARWAN TAHTAH

Workshop Leaders 
Peter Bialobrzeski (Bremen), Nadine Fraczkowski (Frankfurt), Jens Liebchen (Berlin), André Lützen (Berlin), Rana El Nemr (Kairo), Andreas Rost (Berlin), Andy Spyra (Berlin), Saad Tazi (Casablanca), Heinrich Völkel (München), Maurice Weiss (Berlin)

Workshop Partners 
Musée Public National d’Art Moderne & Contemporain, Agence Algérienne pour le Rayonnement Culturel, Maison de l’Image in Tunis, Contemporary Image Collective in Kairo, Darat Al Tasweer in Amman, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah, Sudanese Photographers Group und Africa City for Technology in Khartum, Taschkeel in Dubai

Catalogue
A printed catalogue (90 pages) is available in four languages. Download here.

Organizers
Goethe-Institut Kairo & Contemporary Image Collective

Web
www.ciccairo.com
www.goethe.de/kairo