Rehab Eldalil
Photographer / Based in Cairo
Rehab Eldalil is an Egyptian documentary photographer and educator whose work focuses on the broad theme of identity explored through participatory creative practices. Her work spans personal projects, NGO collaborations, and...
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Photographer, Photojournalist, Writer, Travel, Environment, Documentary, Creative, Photography, Portraiture, Art, Journalist Investigative, Student, Freelance, Impact, Assignments
Clients:
The New York Times
National Geographic Magazine
The Wall Street Journal
About
Available in: Cairo
Focused on:
Photographer, Photojournalist, Writer, Travel, Environment, Documentary, Creative, Photography, Portraiture, Art, Journalist Investigative, Student, Freelance, Impact, Assignments
Coverage Regions:
Africa Middle East
Languages Spoken: Arabic (mother tongue), English (fluent), Spanish (basic)
Years of experience: More than 10
HEFAT certification? no
Rehab Eldalil is an Egyptian documentary photographer and educator whose work focuses on the broad theme of identity explored through participatory creative practices. Her work spans personal projects, NGO collaborations, and publications, focusing on human interest stories in the SWANA region.
Since 2013, Eldalil has pioneered collaborative approaches in visual storytelling, involving her subjects as protagonists in the creative process and challenging traditional documentary photography frameworks. In her practice, Eldalil explores mixed media to develop layered and comprehensive visual narratives that challenge the exoticism of communities including her own perspective as an African and Arabic woman.
Eldalil’s work has earned numerous prestigious awards and has been exhibited internationally. Her long-term project, The Longing Of The Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken, developed under AFAC & Magnum Foundation’s ADP Program, won the FotoEvidence W Award in 2022, leading to its publication in 2023. She has also received accolades such as the National Geographic Emergency Grant for Journalists (2020), Creative Activism Award (2021), the World Press Photo Regional Award (2022), the Premi Mediterrani Albert Camus Award (2022) and Foam Talent (2024). Her latest collaborative project, From the Ashes I Rose, created in partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières and Cortona on the Move was debuted in July 2024.
Published Books
2023 The Longing of the Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken, author, FotoEvidence & TPMAC
2021 South Sinai Flora Field Guide, author, Self published
Membership
aka TAWLA
Women Photograph
Education
2020-2021 Certificate in documentary photography, International Center of Photography, USA
2018-2020 MA photography, Falmouth University, UK
2006-2011 BA photography, Helwan University, Egypt
Since 2013, Eldalil has pioneered collaborative approaches in visual storytelling, involving her subjects as protagonists in the creative process and challenging traditional documentary photography frameworks. In her practice, Eldalil explores mixed media to develop layered and comprehensive visual narratives that challenge the exoticism of communities including her own perspective as an African and Arabic woman.
Eldalil’s work has earned numerous prestigious awards and has been exhibited internationally. Her long-term project, The Longing Of The Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken, developed under AFAC & Magnum Foundation’s ADP Program, won the FotoEvidence W Award in 2022, leading to its publication in 2023. She has also received accolades such as the National Geographic Emergency Grant for Journalists (2020), Creative Activism Award (2021), the World Press Photo Regional Award (2022), the Premi Mediterrani Albert Camus Award (2022) and Foam Talent (2024). Her latest collaborative project, From the Ashes I Rose, created in partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières and Cortona on the Move was debuted in July 2024.
Published Books
2023 The Longing of the Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken, author, FotoEvidence & TPMAC
2021 South Sinai Flora Field Guide, author, Self published
Membership
aka TAWLA
Women Photograph
Education
2020-2021 Certificate in documentary photography, International Center of Photography, USA
2018-2020 MA photography, Falmouth University, UK
2006-2011 BA photography, Helwan University, Egypt
Clients
The New York Times
National Geographic Magazine
The Wall Street Journal
UNICEF Egypt