#egypt cinema
"My father used to get angry," Van Leo, an Armenian-Egyptian photographer, once shared in a 1998 interview. "He'd tell me: 'Did you make the studio for yourself or the customer? Stop making photos of yourself!'" Van Leo, who worked from the 1940s until the 1970s in Egypt, was more than just a photographer; his lens did not merely record the surface, the world we see everyday. He was more interested in capturing the soul – the raw, unspoken emotions…
