Cairo Sunset #2

El-Galaa Street JPEG 2764 x 3869 px Cairo Sunset before the revolution Cairo Sunset was created by misha de ridder during an artist-in-residence at Townhouse Gallery in downtown Cairo, Egypt, five years before the 25 January Revolution of 2011. On foot, wearing sandals and a long-sleeved shirt blending in with the crowds in the dusty streets of Cairo, misha walked for months through the metropolis during sunset, trying to get a grip on the elusive magical city, looking for something to hold on to, perhaps a place to spend some time alone. “Visiting Dutch artist misha de ridder is still trying to find the focus of his series of photographs of Cairo as it changes in one afternoon’s gradua...View all