Youssef Nabil

Title: “Mealema”, Fifi Abdou, Cairo
Media: Handcolored on silver print
Date: 2000
Dimensions: 24 x 35.5 cm
Edition: 2/10

Artwork courtesy of the artist

Starting Bid: $700

Biography:
Youssef Nabil (b.Egypt 1972) grew up in the glory days of Egyptian cinema. His photographs are inspired by its world of glamour, elegance and melodrama, a cinema known as Hollywood on the Nile. As a teenager Nabil liked the old technique of handcoloring black and white photographs – a practice that was still very common in Egypt at the time. He decided to color his images using that same technique in a contemporary way. In his work Nabil leaves room for buried drama while his portraits also play with the desire of immortality.