Cairo. Open City: New Testimonies from an Ongoing Revolution

Cairo. Open City examines the roles that images are playing in the ongoing Egyptian revolution, from the outbreak of the Arab Spring through to the present. The book includes a variety of approaches to the time-based media of photography and video, from the works of photo journalists and recordings by activists and “citizen journalists”, to documents collected by different artists. The different chapters generate a dialogue between the images – cover images from newspapers stand alongside photo galleries from blogs, iconic pictures alongside unknown images of people on the streets, images of martyrs alongside long-term documentary projects. This volume was released the occasion of the exhibition in the Museum for Photography Braunschweig and collects essays from young Cairo-based authors.

232 pages, German/English/Arabic, sewn paperback, Spector Books (Leipzig).