FRAMES
From the frames of car windows to church ceilings, alleyways and gates, doors of abandoned European Egyptian buildings, to village hut windows, frames are a doorway to a way of life and a way of seeing.
This is a closer look behind the opportunities these structural frames offer, their aesthetics, and their utilization in the shaping of cultural norms of societies.
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The following are street interviews visualizing their thoughts through the frames that surrounded them during the time of conversation.
*Interviewed participants remain anonymous for the protection of their identity.
Village Doors
The Woman Who Ignites Her Neighborhood’s Moral Spirit to Protect a Boy
Driver Talks
Driver:
“It's true! Egypt used to be the country known as the 'Land of White Gold' for its invaluable cotton. No offense to any country out there, but there is no cotton like ours in the world and we used to take immense pride in it. We treasured it and we took good care of it.
But, you know, industrialization ruined everything. See all those tall apartment buildings on your right and left? All those are built on rich agricultural ground. People started killing the fertilized land so that they can build on them. Nobody wants to farm anymore, especially cotton.
Cotton is a very demanding crop. It requires a lot of farmers to attend to just one field. There is a specific insect that attacks cotton and feeds on it and this insect has to be removed manually by human labour.
Long ago, farmers used to have their children work in the fields before or after school to remove the insects. Now, the kids are nothing but beggars on the streets with no fortune and a useless education, if any at all. We gave up our treasure, our pride in cotton and agriculture to a bunch of buildings and factories.
Shame on us really."