January 1, 2010 |
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Darfuris in Cairo
Photographs by Myriam Abdelaziz
This series of environmental portraits of refugees from Darfur was shot in February 2008, in housing projects near abandoned factories on the outskirts of Cairo. The refugees make a precarious living recycling metal parts they find in a nearby waste dump. For the thousands of Darfuri refugees who made it to Egypt, life is exceptionally harsh. The horrific media images of the Darfur crisis broadcast around the world represent a reality these refugees experienced first hand that will be forever engraved in their minds and hearts.
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Biography:
Myriam Abdelaziz is an Egyptian-French freelance documentary and portraiture photographer. Born in Cairo, she grew up in Geneva before moving to Cairo in 1987 and then to Paris in 1996. She received her bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the American University in Cairo, her masters degree in Journalism from Paris X, and an MBA from EDC Paris. After working for seven years marketing, she left the corporate world to dedicate her career to photography. She graduated from the International Center of Photography and has been based in New York since 2005.
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