
However, titles always come at the beginning of the work, which always point me back to what I'm saying and why I began it." I always have a sort of idea of why I'm doing a project, but the larger picture isn't really painted, except gradually as I go through it. I felt like there was a sense of identity I had to reclaim somehow and went out onto the streets kind of looking for emotions that expressed that feeling."ĭo you know what a project is going to be about before you start working on it, or does it gradually evolve?
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I arrived with a lot of mixed emotions about my own identity, how I fitted in. A very good example of that is my work in Tahrir Square and Egypt in general. "It could be a personal feeling, something I'm emotionally going through, or it could be a shared feeling. What makes you want to take a photograph?
