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| First Name | Dina |
| Last Name | Adam |
| Born | 1983-06-25 |
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| Biography | |
Only one year after graduating from AUC, Dina Adam, 22, is an up-and-coming Cairo photographer whose work appears in a variety of outlets including billboards, galleries and magazines.
Originally a biology major who aspired to be a doctor, Adam said she was always into art. It was only when she took a photography course at AUC with Hala El Kossey that she realized her passion for photography.
It began with a small project in which she took a mug shot of herself. El Kossey saw her potential and wanted to show her work on campus, which she did later in that semester. Adam decided to change her major to art and graduated in February 2005.
Born into a family with a Sudanese father and a half-Egyptian, half-Turkish mother, Adam credits her familys cultural clash as an inspiration for her work, which focuses mainly on the search for identity. This search for identity was the main theme of her recent solo exhibit, Forged, at Sequoia café and restaurant in Zamalek from Jan. 5 to Feb. 10.
The exhibit was a step forward for her, she said, because it provided, answers to myself and settled what I wanted to figure out in the whole identity clash.
Photography is only one of Adams many passions: she loves drawing, graffiti, and graduated with a double minor in philosophy and film. Film has a major impact on my photography, said Adam, adding that she has already made two documentaries and an experimental film. She also says she is intrigued with black and white photography of the human form and figure.
The muscles, shadows, contrast; theres just something beautiful about it, she said.
Shereen El Kilany, a mass communication senior, who is interested in film and broadcasting and currently taking the photography course at AUC, says that Adam, isnt only an inspiration because she followed a dream she had, but her technique and style in unbelievably professional.
After finishing her solo exhibit at Seqouia, Adam has no plans for any upcoming exhibitions. She has been offered more opportunities for shows but turned them down. Its not only about having shows, she said, I need to find inspiration through myself; its a psychological process.
Adams work has been shown in many publications, including the Daily Star, Campus Magazine and the upcoming issue of Cleo Magazine.
She has also had her work presented on billboards for LAroma Café in Mohandiseen and the Cervantes Institute, a Spanish center in Dokki.
Currently, Adam is working as an English and art teacher in the Greenland School, but hopes to integrate her passion for photography in a career in advertising. Her future goals include owning her own advertising agency.
Adam describes this as only the beginning and calls her photography and art only a glimpse of vision, memory, and a hope of tomorrow.
February 26, 2006
by Chereen Zaki
Caravan Reporter
Other Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions
Forged, Sequoia; The Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zamalek, January 2006.
Group Exhibitions
L'Aroma Café, Al Mohandeseen, Cairo, Egypt. January 2005.
Momkin Tany, Falaki Gallery, AUC, Cairo, Egypt, October 2004.
The Pick 2, The Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt, July 2004.
Photography Exhibition 2, Journalism & Mass Communication Gallery, American University in Cairo, Egypt, February 2004.
Student Art Exhibition, The Falaki Gallery, American University in Cairo, Egypt, March 2003. |
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