Mosa'ab Elshamy
Cairo
Mosa'ab Elshamy is a freelance photographer based in Cairo covering current affairs as well as in-depth socio-economic and cultural photostories.. His coverage of the Egyptian revolution and the consequential events, as well as the 2012 Gaza war, has gained him wide exposure, providing images and photostories to the lieks o TIME Magazine, Harper's Magazine, The Economist, Foreign Policy Magazine and Aljazeera English. He has worked with Amnesty International on a photo campaign as well as other various institutions.
In 2012, he won the Egypt International Photography Contest and Arab Union of Photographers competition and was shortlisted for numerous awards including the Terry O’Neil award, Hasselbald and Professional Photographer of The Year. His photography has been exhibited in Egypt, Germany and England.
Mosa'ab has lived throughout Middle-East, including Sudan, Nigeria, Yemen. Ethiopia and Egypt. He is fluent in Arabic, English and working knowledge of French.