Between 2011 and 2013, Emine Gozde Sevim traveled to Egypt to experience life in the post-Mubarak era. The movement and the sounds of Cairo where she eventually spent sixteen months first led her to filming but as the story of the “historic” transition further developed, she turned to still, quiet, black and white images. Rather than giving an assertion about the events, her work amounts to an honest quest by a photographer searching in a foreign universe. Unobtrusive in language, Sevim tells a different story of Egypt at this time and of the people she encountered than what we have grown accustomed to.
Scheduled for publication by Kehrer Verlag in the summer of 2015, Using the format of a notebook diary, the main testimony of “Embed in Egypt” is about a photographer’s confrontation with her own vulnerability.
Through the depiction of her particular experience in Egypt, Sevim invites us all to a universal account of the human condition in our times. She reveals the limits of our collective understanding, and therefore of our collective memory, about a time of global importance and its effects on everyday life, which continues parallel to what we think we know. Though the book inevitably reveals more to those familiar with this particular story.
BOOK
Embed in Egypt, a story without a beginning
Emine Gozde Sevim
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Awards: Shortlisted for 2014 MACK First Book Award
Collections: National Media Museum (Bradford, UK)
Edition of 1000
*100 books available to order as Special Edition, with an accompanying print, both signed and numbered
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