About me
Bio
Photographer Wafaa Samir lives and works in Cairo. Her work explores two main tracks; our relationships with urbanism and physical spaces, and a figurative representation of emotions and states of mind. She alternates her attention between these outer and inner worlds, approaching each very differently.
Samir earned her Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo in 2013. In parallel she nurtured her interest in photography and actively showcased in many group exhibitions In Cairo, Germany, Belgium, France and Dubai. Her participation at the 26th edition of the Youth Salon in Cairo earned her the Photography Award. In 2015 one of her photographs was selected as the official poster image for the 1st Biennale des Photographes du monde arabe, and another one was chosen as the poster for Mooov Film Festival, in which Samir also served as a jury member.
Selected Exhibitions
Cairo art fair
Tam gallery Cairo
DECEMBER 2020
The Arab streets
Gulf photo plus, Dubai
SEPTEMBER 2019
Biennale des photographes du monde arabe
Arab World Institute, Paris
NOVEMBER 2015
Nord art
Büdelsdorf, Germany
JUNE 2015
Depict
Women’s association, Cairo
MARCH 2015
Red line
Bayt Al-Senary, Cairo
2014
The Egyptian revolution
The Unesco residence, Paris
2012
The Youth Salon
Opera House, Cairo
DECEMBER 2019
Nile Salon
Mahmoud Mokhtar Museum, Cairo
NOVEMBER 2017
The 26th Youth Salon
Opera House, Cairo
OCTOBER 2015
Foto expo
We claim the streets, Belgium
APRIL 2015
Layer of green
CIC, Cairo
2014
The streaming festival 8th edition
Online exhibition
2013
Saturated souls
Darb 1718, Cairo
2010
Awards
Nile Salon jury Award
CAIRO - 2017
first place in Nahr Al-bahr competition
CAIRO - 2012
youth salon photography award
CAIRO - 2015
second place in Sakia competition
CAIRO- 2012
Grants
Artist support grant
AFAC - 2020
Workshops &
art residencies
Food Ethnography workshop
Instructor: Mai Amer
CIC, CAIRO - 2019
Sowing Seeds art residency
INDIA - 2018
North south (culture diversity support program)
BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT - 2015
Art handling workshop
instructors: Saad Samir and Lucy Till-Awny
TOWNHOUSE, CAIRO- 2014
Layer of green photography workshop
instructors: Rana El-Nemr and Jens Liebchen
CIC, CAIRO - 2014
Week of light workshop
instructor: Jorge Heieck
CAIRO - 2013
The wrong image workshop
instructor: Osama Dawod
CIC, CAIRO - 2012
The firefly tunnel project
instructor: Tavia Lafollette
CAIRO- 2010