Atop Mt. Sinai (Moses Mountain), my first mountain hike with Hemeida, my tour guide and other new friends.
1. Hemeida shooting video for the sunrise
2. Islam
3. Hemeida overlooking the view
4. A spectator staying at the top waiting for the sunrise
5. 3am Saleh, at the 700 steps mark
6. Inside the Moses Mountain Mosque
7. Hemeida going down, still shooting with the video camera
Here/Now begins in Algeria.
The first instalment of Dazed MENA’s new series exploring creative scenes across the region traces a generation of Algerians negotiating questions of identity, inheritance and self-definition through image, sound, design, movement and community.
From photography and electronic music to skateboarding and architecture, Here/Now follows the people reshaping contemporary Algeria on their own terms.
Tap the link in bio to learn more about the series and the profiles. 🔗 More soon. 👀
Music @3abdelkader_atm
DOP and EditorOsama @cornawy
Director & Producer Amira @amiraelraghy
Words @hamdibaala
Act 3: A Virtue Before Conviction
The last of the the rest of it, this was the last and 3rd day spent shooting birds & rowers on the nile.
Endurance is a virtue before conviction, a proof faith under pressure.
the rest of it started as this idea in my mind to show all that was emotionally experienced during the past 2 years, it felt like a self-retribution after being creatively blocked for the longest time.
it was necessary to break unreasonable mirrors i’d see my reflections in, a resistance against perfection to just create freely instead of burdening the weight of potential/what ifs/ and fictional possibilities eroding my mind, or in Julia Cameron’s words “Worrying about the quantity and letting God worry about the quality.”
This was a release and I cant be more relieved and excited for all that is to come!
Capacity of Endurance - Act 3 - The last of the rest of it
music: @martinashraf
graphics: @msh.metlawen
rowers: @adam.elshanawany@raef_alwani
We invited our friends and family over at our home venue to celebrate it one last time together as a crew.
The Nile garden has been our playground for so long its heartbreaking to say goodbye, and we decided to eternalize it by documenting the day, and it came together as a beautiful palette sonically and visually.
See you on NYE at our Nile garden, for one last time!
Lazuli Homecoming sets coming soon 😉
visuals: @cornawy
title card: @msh.metlawen
Act 2’s flipside, was this incident.
The 8 was struggling to execute a synchronized row as some of the crew are failing to do the movement. Communicated as the letter “و” (WAW) in arabic as the motion of the hand and the oar(s) is done by imagining you’re writing the letter. Frustration does arise alot during the training sessions, again highlighting the struggle to be as surgical and efficient as possible, as one out of sync crew member can mess with the balance of the entire boat!
Act 3 will bookend this project, coming very soon!
Capacity of Endurance (قوة تحمل) is the last of the rest of it
Act 2 is The Eight
Sound: @martinashraf
Title card: @msh.metlawen
Inframe: @hossam__eissa and the boys from Maadi Rowing Club
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Shot in 2023
This project is a visual exploration of the nile rowers, their relationship to the nile, their commitment and competition, and their capacity of endurance for the sport. The 8+ is the biggest and the fastest boat in the sport, it consist of 8 sweep rowers along with the coxwain that directs them. The more I got into the sport, the more I realized how strategic and surgical being a rower is.
A Cloudy Day is Act 3, and it is finally the last of the rest of it…
The other side of the coin to the pristine visuals for Capacity of Endurance is this, the players themselves, the coach, and how they all act as a tribe and a team.
Shot during the first day I meet everyone, they were training for a 2000m erg test…
Capacity of Endurance (قوة تحمل) is the last of the rest of it
Act 1 is Testing the water..
Sound: @martinashraf
Title card: @msh.metlawen
Inframe: @hossam__eissa and the boys from Maadi Rowing Club
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Shot in 2023
This project is a visual exploration of the nile rowers, their relationship to the nile, their commitment and competition, and their capacity of endurance for the sport. Acts 2 & 3 are the rest of this.
Step behind the scenes of our September issue cover shoot with Wegz, filmed ahead of the release of his album Aqareb. This release not only marks the biggest moment in his career, but a turning point in how rap continues to push the boundaries of pop music in Egypt, the region, and beyond.
Tap the link in bio to read the full cover story 🔗
#DazedMENA #Issue03
وراء كواليس غلاف عدد سبتمبر مع ويجز، قبل صدور ألبومه عقارب. هذا الإصدار لا يمثل فقط أكبر محطة في مسيرته، بل نقطة تحول في كيفية دفع الراب لحدود البوب في مصر والمنطقة وخارجها.
اقرأ مقال الغلاف بالكامل عن طريق الرابط في البايو 🔗
Talent @wegzofficial
Director @k_frawy
DOP @cornawy
VHS @salmasrour
Stylist @myssiaghosn
Makeup @makeupbyhabashi
Hair @momen_turk_666
Photo Assist: @abdelrhmanomar_
1st AC: @themutarek
2nd AC: @omaryahia.film
Gaffer: @ahmedammar8109
Creative Producer @monicaaabadir
Dazed MENA Creative Producer: @fatimamouradd
Production Crew: @mohannadelmorsy
Production Assistant: @laghaydo
Talent Image Director: @By.babylon
Talent Manager: @asemmtag (@raad.records )
Editor-in-Chief @ahmadaswaid
Fashion Director @omaimasss
Deputy Editor @sarraalayyan
Creative Director @chndy_
Creative Producer @fatimamouradd
Art Director @da.o.ud
Content Director @fadynageeb
The rest of it for Rafik’s The Longest Sleep is Moulid Jalal El-Din Al-Soyouti in Cairo, 2024.
My brief experiences in shooting Al Mawalid made me oberve some similarities for the goers. All the sequences are bundled thematically to reflect that where appropriate.
1- the observers
2- the seekers
3- portraits
4- the pacers
5- a mohsen sallam zikr
6- MISC
Special thanks for @ddinaali for the support and the audio, which is recorded by her during Mohsen Sallam’s zikr during Mawlid Al-Morsi Abo El-Abbas in Alexandria last year 🌹
Was lucky enough to go through this experience for The Longest Sleep, Rafik’s observation on the moment of transcendence during Zikr in Al Moulid.
Directed by: @rafikgreiss
Shot alongside @tahoun____
Edit: Valentin Milou
Grade: @nadia.khairat
Producer: Mohammed Essawi
Clips are from the screening at Balice Hertling
Last slide is from the rest of it…
