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      • Youssef Nabil, born in Cairo in 1972, is a celebrated contemporary Egyptian photographer who produces elaborately staged photographs that resemble the melodrama of 1950s Egyptian cinema.
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  2. Youssef Nabil was born on the 6th of November 1972. [1] He is an Egyptian artist and photographer. Youssef Nabil began his photography career in 1992.

  3. mail.youssefnabil.com › info › biographyBiography - Youssef Nabil

    Biography. Youssef Nabil draws inspiration from the concept of memory and the cinematic universe he grew up admiring in his native country, Egypt. His works’ ethereal aesthetics take from the hand coloring photography technique of the technicolor films.

  4. Apr 9, 2020 · The scene from Egyptian artist photographer Youssef Nabil’s film You Never Left (2010) relays feelings of leaving and longing that permeate his work. Set in an allegorical place that serves as a metaphor for a lost Egypt, it offers parallels between exile and death, love, and life.

  5. Egyptian photographer and video artist Youssef Nabil’s passion for cinema can be read in all his works. He uses its aesthetics and drama to immortalise faces, parts of Arab culture, the mood of an era or his solitary self in a practice halfway between photography and painting.

  6. Whilst studying litterature at the University of Cairo in 1992, as a sideline he began producing black and white photographs; highly dramatic scenes inspired by the golden age of Egyptian cinema.

  7. artbreath.org › interviews › youssef-nabilYOUSSEF NABIL - Art Breath

    His work comprised of painted photography and film is rooted in Egypt, yet transcends the artist’s homeland, travelling across cities, notions and subjects that deal with migration, a feeling of exile, life and death, socio-political elements, the notion of belonging, as well as questioning the idea of home.

  8. Dec 4, 2020 · Born in Egypt in 1972, Nabil is one of the world's most iconic photographers and artists, whose works have been featured in exhibitions and museums worldwide in the past decade. Nabil paints on black-and-white photos and creates compositions that depict his subjects as unattainable.

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