Lamees Saleh Sharf ELDin is a documentary photographer and visual storyteller based in Cairo. Lamees started her career amid the January 25th Revolution 2011 to express and document the states of loneliness and identity loss in her country. She was part of the Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX) educational cairo program in 2022. With her background in psychology and sociology, what drives her artistic work are ways of visually exposing and narrating social matters in Egypt. 

Lamees’s long-term project “indefinitely” has been shortlisted for the CAP prize 2023, and earned her a grant from the 2022 Arab Documentary Photography Program and Magnum foundation

Joop Swart Masterclass, 2024 Nominated.
CAP Prize, International Prize for Contemporary African, 2023, shortlisted.
Phmuseum Women Grant, 2021, finalist.
Arab Documentary Photography Program, 2022, grantee.
National Geographic EGYPT, Silver medal, 2014, winner.

Awards & Nominations 

DMJX, Danish School of Media and Journalism 2021.

Workshops

Copenhagen Photo Festival, Denmark, 2024.
Fujifilm Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, 2023.
Framing Life With DMJX, Cairo, Egypt 2022.
Photopia Cairo Photo Week, Egypt 2021.
El Sawy Culturewheel, Egypt, 2020.
Egypt Photo Summit, Egypt, 2016.
Tahrir Lounge Exhibition, Egypt, 2015.
Egypt Photo Summit, Egypt 2014.

Selected Exhibitions

Documentry films

Photographer
makahy ateka, aljazeera channel 2014.

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I'm incredibly excited to be selected to be part of @copenhagenphotofestival 2024 with my ongoing long-term project Indefinitely, along with incredible photographers from all around the world. Copenhagen Photo Festival is the largest photo festival i
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(3/3) On the agreed-upon day to hand over the ransom, the kidnapper discovered that the police had been contacted, and told Ahmed's father that they would kill his son and that he would receive his body from the morgue. To this day, Ahmed's family do
(2/3) “Sometimes I laugh at something and suddenly I ask myself, why am I laughing? Even when I laugh, I blame myself for it.” Ahmed’s mother (1) On the left, a picture of Ahmed’s mother sits inside her bedroom. After Ahmed w
(1/3) “I asked the kidnapper to hear my son’s voice. As soon as he told me, “Daddy,” he took the phone from him. The police officer told me after that, “Maybe it’s not your son.” All the kids sound the same.
(3/3) Nine months later, the kidnapper was apprehended. During interrogation, she confessed to abducting Ruqayyah and selling her to another family for 294 dollars. However, she continually provided misleading information about the family’s whe