6.3 x 9.5 IN / 16 x 24 CM
80 pages, 47 plates
Swiss binding (lay flat), Text in English
ISBN 978-1-954877-23-8
Edition of 400
Cairo Dream brings together photographs made in Cairo between 2009 and 2016, tracing a period of profound political and social upheaval. Working between large-format and handheld film, Anthony Hamboussi approaches the city through a deeply personal lens shaped by his Egyptian heritage and his position between cultures.
The work emerges from sustained engagement with Cairo’s neighborhoods and public spaces, where questions of access, responsibility, and representation are constant. As the optimism of the 2011 revolution gives way to increased control and uncertainty, the photographs reflect a shifting landscape—both external and internal.
Cairo Dream is not a detached document, but an inquiry into what it means to look, to belong, and to make images within a community that resists being reduced to one perspective.
Published in collaboration with +KGP/MONOLITH
About the Author
Anthony Hamboussi is a photographer, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1969. His work has been exhibited in the Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, International Center of Photography, MoMA/PS1, Americas Society, Queens Museum and SculptureCenter, New York. He has published four monographs, Newtown Creek: A Photographic Survey of New York’s Industrial Waterway, Cairo Ring Road, La Petite Ceinture and Cairo Dream. He has co-authored two books; What is Affordable Housing? with the Center for Urban Pedagogy and LIC in Context with Place in History. Hamboussi has received grants from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Jerome Foundation, En Foco, and the New York State Council on the Arts in Architecture, Planning & Design. He is the founder of L Nour Editions a non-profit publisher specializing in photo books by artists from the SWANA region and their diaspora. Hamboussi lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
6.3 x 9.5 IN / 16 x 24 CM
80 pages, 47 plates
Swiss binding (lay flat), Text in English
ISBN 978-1-954877-23-8
Edition of 400
Cairo Dream brings together photographs made in Cairo between 2009 and 2016, tracing a period of profound political and social upheaval. Working between large-format and handheld film, Anthony Hamboussi approaches the city through a deeply personal lens shaped by his Egyptian heritage and his position between cultures.
The work emerges from sustained engagement with Cairo’s neighborhoods and public spaces, where questions of access, responsibility, and representation are constant. As the optimism of the 2011 revolution gives way to increased control and uncertainty, the photographs reflect a shifting landscape—both external and internal.
Cairo Dream is not a detached document, but an inquiry into what it means to look, to belong, and to make images within a community that resists being reduced to one perspective.
Published in collaboration with +KGP/MONOLITH
About the Author
Anthony Hamboussi is a photographer, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1969. His work has been exhibited in the Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, International Center of Photography, MoMA/PS1, Americas Society, Queens Museum and SculptureCenter, New York. He has published four monographs, Newtown Creek: A Photographic Survey of New York’s Industrial Waterway, Cairo Ring Road, La Petite Ceinture and Cairo Dream. He has co-authored two books; What is Affordable Housing? with the Center for Urban Pedagogy and LIC in Context with Place in History. Hamboussi has received grants from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Jerome Foundation, En Foco, and the New York State Council on the Arts in Architecture, Planning & Design. He is the founder of L Nour Editions a non-profit publisher specializing in photo books by artists from the SWANA region and their diaspora. Hamboussi lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
