Reveries

Monochrome is the art of using the tonal variations of only one color, and in a photographic context it suggests the idea of developing photographs in black and white. In this series of fine-art photographs, I intend to express abstraction through degrading the photos of color, only using the tonal variation of grey. In doing so, an element of attraction is decreased leaving more space for imagination. Black and white is not the way we see the world, and that is why it has a surreal effect which is open to different interpretations. 

Escaping the busy cities into subtle realities, Reveries experiments with the idea of merging the two realms of dreams and reality into one, forming a third kind of absolute reality, a surreality. This photography project was conducted over the course of 6 months between the two metropolitan cities, Cairo and Berlin in in attempt to draw an analogy. The research relies mainly on a study of the photographs of Imogen Cunningham, Paul Strand, Ansel Adams and Andre Kertesz.

A series of 32 photographs are shown in a photo book that I designed and hand-binded.