Photo by Mohamed Sherif


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Sherifa 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, with features in Architectural Digest, Vogue, ArchDaily, The Guardian, and Landezine, among others. Parallel to her commissions, she is building a body of work focused on the region’s material culture and enduring legacies of its architectural figures.

Features.

Architectural Digest France
June 2026

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

Phaidon Press
Jane Hall, “Making Space: Interior Design by Women”, 2025

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

Landezine
March 2025

Vogue Arabia 
November 2024
March 2017

The Guardian
August 2015

Talks.

"Archiving, image-making and publishing: Dataland Publication as a case study" talk by Sherifa Hamid, part of a series of talks organised by the Faculty of Applied Sciences & Arts, at the GUC (German University in Cairo).
November 2024

"Hijacking mainstream publishing infrastructures" panel discussion involving Waraq (LBN), Mangal Media (TRKY) & Dataland Publications (EGY), part of the Public Program at the Cairo Art Book Fair's second edition which took place in Ghurnata Palace, Heliopolis, Cairo.
December 2023

"Creating Dataland Publications: Typology 01 Administrative Buildings"  talk by Sherifa Hamid & Ebrahim Bahaa Eldin, part of "Traversing Cairo" series of talks organised by ASE (Anthropology Sociology Egyptology Association), at the AUC (American University in Cairo).
May 2023

Exhibitied work.

“Mémoire d’un territoire habité” (workshop exhibition)
Curated by photographers Nicolas Giraud, Bertrand Stofleth & Anne-Lisse Seusse
ENSA PM, Paris, France
2019

“She tells” (group exhibition)
Curated by SOMA Art Gallery
Cairo Photo Week, Cairo, Egypt
2018

“Third-eye” (group exhibition)
Curated by Hala El-Koussy
Mashrabeya Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2015

“Roznama 3” (group exhibition)
Visual arts Competition
Received Jury Selection award
Medrar Contemporary Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2014