Hermann Huber
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Book Launch of Hermann Huber - Cairo`s Zabbaleen
booksigning & artist talk
Saturday, December 8, 3pm-4pm
Hermann Huber - Cairo's Zabbaleen
Hermann Huber, who has lived in Cairo for a longer time, made portraits during his stay of the community of the Zabbaleen, the local rubbish collectors (Arabic: Zabbal).
The result is a series of photographs documenting, on the one hand, the existential problems of a manner of life and, on the other hand, impressing the viewer with the beauty of the unusual and of a place not usually represented: the heaps of waste materials that become an abstract ornament and the protagonists posing boldly in front of them provide evidence of a life lived in immediacy, existing especially in the moment.
The Zabbaleen are a group of about 26,000 people, who carry out their work of rubbish collection while living in the main endogam...
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booksigning & artist talk
Saturday, December 8, 3pm-4pm
Hermann Huber - Cairo's Zabbaleen
Hermann Huber, who has lived in Cairo for a longer time, made portraits during his stay of the community of the Zabbaleen, the local rubbish collectors (Arabic: Zabbal).
The result is a series of photographs documenting, on the one hand, the existential problems of a manner of life and, on the other hand, impressing the viewer with the beauty of the unusual and of a place not usually represented: the heaps of waste materials that become an abstract ornament and the protagonists posing boldly in front of them provide evidence of a life lived in immediacy, existing especially in the moment.
The Zabbaleen are a group of about 26,000 people, who carry out their work of rubbish collection while living in the main endogam...