Profile
Ali Zaraay is a visual artist and documentary photographer based in Cairo. He studied in Hochschule Hannover's International Program of Documentary and Photojournalism 2020. He also pursued a one-year program in liberal arts in CILAS 2021-2022. In July 2023, Ali started his residency in Cité Des Arts, Paris. Between 2012-2016, he worked as a press photographer in a variety of Egyptian newspapers. Since 2015, he has been working on his long-term documentary project with the Nomadic Bedouins of Egypt.Ali is interested in interactive installations and public exhibitions, and has been engaged in curation and creative production. He recently founded “Safena 7” collective that offers a space for critical and multidisciplinary collective discussions around photography in Egypt. Ali’s current artworks are concerned with the change in the city, the demolition, construction and displacement. He believes in the importance of contemporary multimedia tools; collage, installations, video, sound and web-documentaries to complement photography.
