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19.8.2018 - Some prints from old, incomplete, and in-progress works in my studio at the VCA during the first semester. #vca #contemporaryart #vca_mcm#unimelb #melbourne #melbourneartist #film #filmphotography #filmsnotdead #filmneverdies #photography #printmaking #painting #portrait #egypt #alternativeprocess #vandyke #cyanotype #largeformat #4x5 #35mm#35mmfilm

#Australia #NorthernTerritory #SouthAustralia #AliceSprings #CooberPedy #NT #VCA #VCA_MCM #unimelb #desert #nature #landscape #photography

Dialogue: collaborative portraits - 2018 In this series, I wanted to explore the relationship between a photographer and his subjects. For each image, a 35mm film camera in double-exposure mode was used to take a photograph of one of my classmates, who then pointed the camera back at me to take a shot. Each pair of shots is combined in a single double-exposure portrait, sometimes peculiarly aligned and at other times uncannily coinciding. Further imperfections are derived from a printing process designed to mimic the transitions from photographer to subject and back again. After processing the film, it was digitally scanned, the resulting image is transferred into digital negative to be printed manually on silver gelatin paper, producing a shadowy materiality that documents the passage from photographer and subject, between digital and analog. Thanks for the generous collaboration of my lovely classmates: @jessiecunninghamreid @gu2815 @priyanamana @angus_hamra @caroline_mcgrath @gerglei_1.0 @casey_jenkins @marcela.vitol @marmadukelee #vca #vca_mcm #unimelb #melbourne #contemporaryart #darkroom #35mm #silvergelatin #ilford #printing #portraits #doubleexposure #ezzmonem #photography

A series of collaborative portraits I shot in April with classmates at the VCA, and printed them last month on silver gelatin paper. I’ll post scans from the prints and some information about the process shortly. #darkroom #35mm #silvergelatin #ilford #printing #portraits #vca #vca_mcm #unimelb #photography

1.4.2020 Online seminar/crit session with my VCA classmates and teachers last week. #vca_mcm #contemporaryart #unimelb #melbourne https://www.instagram.com/p/B-nvKtjndHd/?igshid=1lu0a1zcw1epx

A few weeks ago before the lockdown @vca_mcm #largeformat #darkroom #vca #vca_mcm #photography #contemporaryart #ezzmonem #melbourneartists #filmphotography #filmneverdie #35mm #filmisnotdead #melbourne (at Fine Arts and Music at Melbourne - VCA & Conservatorium) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-lLuFOHCiJ/?igshid=8co3eqnkjeqk

Remembered this while looking for a streaming link for the Oscars! ⁣ ⁣ #throwback '𝐀 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭', Single Channel Video (70 minutes) - 2016 (exhibited at the VCA in 2018). ⁣ ⁣ >>Swipe right for the video. ⁣ ⁣ “Millions of people around the world gathered one night watching the Academy awards ceremony. The live coverage rights were sold to a few media channels while millions of people flood over the internet searching for free live streaming links. One of these links directed to a Youtube channel where the watching rate was rising by thousands in few minutes reaching 20,000 concurrent viewers. While the reporters were trying to make interviews with the superstars on the red carpet, the viewers started to chat with each other on the side chatting window. It was a very long chatting conversation between people from different countries with different languages fighting, swearing, trolling and saying random thoughts about sex, religion, politics and just a few mentions of the Oscars.” ⁣ ⁣ The work was exhibited as part of the international students exhibition at the VCA Artspace in 218, Curated by Emanuel Rodriguez-Chaves and Yunyang Cen. ⁣ ⁣ #oscars #videoart #vca #vca_mcm #exhibition #contemporaryart #melbourneartist #ezzmonem #melbourne (at VCA Student Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Xwt_yHLKl/?igshid=15f45v6gscgnd

Two prints from my Pyramids postcards series that I started working on earlier this year. I hand-colored them using diluted dyes from a Japanese coloured paper sheet that I got from a very old studio in Cairo when I was doing an interview with the studio photographer Salah Neama in 2016. After some trials with dyes, I moved to photo oils, as they were much easier to control, but I think the dyes have better results aesthetically. The pyramids postcards is an in-progress work that deals with the ideas of home, authority, and surveillance. #vca #vca_mcm #unimelb #melbourne #contemporaryart @vca_mcm #printing #handcoloring #photography #Egypt #pyramids #gizapyramids (at Victorian College of the Arts (VCA)) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrJRF_2hRCh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=lh5h33bq7mlb