Mads Greve conducting a portrait workshop in Cairo

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Mads Greve is in Cairo this week to conduct the second of the series of four workshops for a selected group of Egyptian photographers.

Mads Greve started a portrait workshop this Tuesday at the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute. The five-day workshop is the second in a series of four workshops for a group of 12 Egyptian photographers. Photo: Sabry Mohamed

The workshops are made in co-operation with Photopia and with financial support from DEDI, the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Initiative. The first workshop was held by Søren Pagter at Photopia. The coming workshop will be held in January and will focus on journalistic writing. DMJX teacher, Gitte Luk, will run this workshop.

Mads Greve teaching at the portait workshop in Cairo. During the workshop week, the participants will do various portrait assignments and get feedback on their work. Photo: Sabry Mohamed

In the period between January and June 2020, the 12 participants will make individual visual projects. In June, Søren Pagter will be back in Cairo to edit the photographers’ stories.

The twelve participants are:
Hala Hesham
Mahmoud Shawkan
Mohamed Osam
Mariam Atallah
Mohamed Hozyen
John Nasr
May Hussein
Anas Kamal
Mahmoud Nada
Hadeer Mahmoud
Mohammad Kotb
Peter Loza

Mads Greve is giving feedback to photographer Mahmoud Nada. Photo: Sabry Mohamed