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info@sherifahamid.com
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instagramSherifa Hamid is a Cairo-based photographer trained as an architect at ENSA Paris-Malaquais, where she completed her BA and MA. Her spatial sensibility informs her work for design firms and institutions across the region. Her editorial assignments include commissions for Kinfolk and Architectural Digest, with further work featured in publications by Assouline and Phaidon Press, and appearing in titles including Vogue Arabia, ArchDaily and The Guardian. Alongside her commissions, she is building a body of work focused on the region’s material culture and the enduring legacies of its foundational architectural figures.

Features.

Architectural Digest
June 2026

Architectural Digest France
June 2026

Architectural Digest Middle East
August 2026 ; June 2026 ; May 2026
March 2025 ; January 2024

Phaidon Press
Jane Hall, “Making Space”, 2025

Arch Daily
“World Photography Day: 25 Rising Architectural Photographers to Watch in 2025”

Talks.

2024
Archiving, Image-Making and Publishing: Dataland Publications as a Case Study
Guest Speaker
Faculty of Applied Sciences & Arts, German University in Cairo (GUC), Cairo, Egypt (Nov 2024)

2023
Hijacking Mainstream Publishing Infrastructures
Panelist with Waraq (LBN) & Mangal Media (TUR)
Cairo Art Book Fair (2nd Edition), Ghurnata Palace, Cairo, Egypt (Dec 2023)

2023
Creating Dataland Publications: Typology 01 Administrative Buildings
Co-Speaker with Ebrahim Bahaa Eldin
"Traversing Cairo" Lecture Series, Anthropology, Sociology & Egyptology Association (ASE), American University in Cairo (AUC), Cairo, Egypt (May 2023)

Selected Exhibitions.

2019
Mémoire d’un territoire habité (Workshop Exhibition)
Curated by Nicolas Giraud, Bertrand Stofleth, and Anne-Lise Seusse
ENSA Paris-Malaquais, Paris, France

2018
She Tells (Group Exhibition)
Curated by SOMA Art Gallery
Cairo Photo Week, Cairo, Egypt

2015
Third-Eye (Group Exhibition)
Curated by Hala El-Koussy
Mashrabeya Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt

2014
Roznama 3 (Group Exhibition & Visual Arts Competition)
Awarded Jury Selection Award
Medrar Contemporary Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

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