Profile
Mohamed Mahdy, born and raised in Egypt, is a documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work concentrates on the buried and unseen communities there, as well as cultural and social issues. His work "Moon Dust" has been announced as one of the 2026 World Press Photo Contest winners. More of his project has been exhibited at the 25 Youth Salon and the Ministry of Culture, as well as in Maine and New Mexico, and has twice exhibited his work with the Ian Parry Scholarship in London. Mohamed was the youngest ever speaker at the Dubai Photo Forum in 2016. He is completing his studies in multimedia arts at PUA University in Alexandria.