Mohamed Mahdy launched his book Here the Doors Don’t Know Me in November 2025 at Paris Photo. Mahdy studied at DMJX in 2022 where part of the stories in the book were made. With this project, he received the 2024 DMJX-ECCA Award to support the making of an interactive webpage with the stories from the book.
Since 2015, in collaboration with local residents, Mohamed Mahdy has documented how inhabitants are suffering from the rapid urban development in Alexandria, Egypt. One of the chapters was added to the photo project while Mohamed Mahdy was a student at DMJX in the spring and autumn terms, 2022. Here he was part of the international photojournalism programme at DMJX in Aarhus on a scholarship from the ECCA Family Foundation.
The cover and examples of the various designs of the pages in Here the Doors Don’t Know Me
