{"id":8042,"date":"2025-11-20T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/?p=8042"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:30:35","slug":"mohamed-mahdy-launched-his-book-here-the-doors-dont-know-me-at-2025-paris-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/mohamed-mahdy-launched-his-book-here-the-doors-dont-know-me-at-2025-paris-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Mahdy launched his book Here the Doors Don’t Know Me at 2025 Paris Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mohamed Mahdy<\/a> launched his book Here the Doors Don\u2019t Know Me<\/em> in November 2025 at Paris Photo<\/a>. 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<\/a> to support the making of an interactive webpage<\/a> with the stories from the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mohamed Mahdy presenting his book Here the Doors Don\u2019t Know Me at the stand of the collective Aka Tawla at Polycopies at the 2025 Paris Photo Fair. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since 2015, in collaboration with local residents, Mohamed Mahdy has documented how inhabitants are suffering from the rapid urban development in Alexandria, Egypt.\u00a0One 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Here the Doors Don’t Know Me at the 2025 Paris Photo Fair. The book is published by Editorial RM.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Writer Fred Ritchin (left) together with Mohamed Mahdy at Polycopies at the 2025 Paris Photo Fair. Fred Ritchin has written a text for the book.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The cover and examples of the various designs of the pages in Here the Doors Don’t Know Me<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Mohamed Mahdy launched his book Here the Doors Don\u2019t 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8042","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\/8042","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=8042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8061,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions\/8061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo.dmjx.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}