{"id":5997,"date":"2023-06-08T22:29:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T20:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/?p=5997"},"modified":"2023-06-08T22:29:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T20:29:42","slug":"fares-zaitoon-exhibits-his-final-project-in-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/08\/fares-zaitoon-exhibits-his-final-project-in-cairo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fares Zaitoon exhibits his final project in Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fareszaitoon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fares Zaitoon<\/a> graduated from DMJX in the spring 2021 with his project &#8220;Stranger Tourist&#8221;, that also received honorable mention and a grant at the <a href=\"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/2022\/08\/31\/and-the-winner-of-the-ecca-dmjx-photojournalism-award-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award<\/a>\u00a0for graduating DMJX students. The grant has now made it possible for Fares Zaitoon to put up a show at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/darb1718.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darb 1718 Contemporary Art and Culture Center<\/a> in Cairo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1350\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Fares-show_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5998\"\/><figcaption><em>Invitation and poster from Fares Zaitoon&#8217;s exhibition that opened today, June 8 at Darb 1718 Contemporary Art and Culture Center in Cairo. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exhibition text:<br>Momo doesn\u2019t invite anyone into his room.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years ago, Fares was allowed back into his friend\u2019s world. A world they once shared together, together with drugs. \u201cStranger Tourist\u201d is an exhibition about this invitation and what it means to be in Momo\u2019s room. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fares photographs Momo as his friend. There is a dialogue and there is music. To situate this friendship, the exhibition puts emphasis on the room itself. It pushes us to reflect on whether we are strangers or tourists in Momo\u2019s world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStranger tourist\u201d is an exhibition by Fares Zaitoon, curated by Farida Youssef and Momo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition opens Thursday, June 8 and runs til June 18 at Darb 1718 Contemporary Art and Culture Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictures from the final preparation of the exhibition &#8220;Stranger Tourist&#8221; by Fares Zaitoon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Fares-show_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6001\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Fares-show_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6002\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Fares-show_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5999\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fares Zaitoon graduated from DMJX in the spring 2021 with his project &#8220;Stranger Tourist&#8221;, that also received honorable mention and a grant at the ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award\u00a0for graduating DMJX students. The grant has now made it possible for Fares Zaitoon to put up a show at Darb 1718 Contemporary Art<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6003,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions\/6003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}