Cairo Canals, 2013
While working as a freelance photographer and adjunct professor in Cairo, I began documenting the quiet canals that thread through the city—narrow waterways often overlooked amid the urban sprawl.
Captured with a Polaroid Land Camera during early morning drives, the images reflect a fleeting stillness found in motion. Some frames were lost to Cairo’s summer humidity and the unpredictable rhythm of loading film in the back of a moving taxi.
After returning to Washington, DC, I compiled the surviving images into a limited-edition, newspaper-style zine. Select copies were stocked at the International Center of Photography in New York; others found homes through private sale. A few remain in my archive.
