5 decades of photography of the most important cinematic works, celebrated by Photopia to honor the great photographer Mohamed Bakr, and this comes through the “Fifty Years of Cinematic Portrait” exhibition, which will be held from February 25 to next March 10, as part of the activities of Cairo Design Week. The exhibition includes the most important cinematic portraits that Bakr photographed over the course of 50 years, selected from more than 2,000 cinematic works he photographed since 1956. Just as cinema has its own magic that continues over the years, but the photographs that capture that magic have an increasing influence. over time.
Muhammad Bakr said, “The exhibition will contain approximately 100 images from 80 films. The exhibition has been prepared with Marwa Abu Laila for approximately two months, to select a group of charming cadres from cinema, literature, performance, comedy, and realism, combining the ancient and the modern, and are represented in special portraits.” Stars in different historical stages that coincide with the new and the old.
He added, “In fact, after the success of the exhibition in El Gouna, Marwa Abu Leila, the founder and executive director of the Photopia Foundation, convinced me to host another exhibition of my work at the Photopia headquarters. We chose a group of images to present in the exhibition. The audience who will attend the exhibition will feel every image. I was keen, while photographing the stars, to collect… Between photography and cinematography.
On the other hand, Marwa Abu Laila said, “We are proud to host and coordinate part of the cinematic archive of the great professor and great photographer Muhammad Bakr, who documented more than 2,000 cinematic films. It was important to celebrate an important part of his work, through which he monitored the scenes of famous cinematic films, and his career.” “The great work in cinematographic photography, and it is also an addition to Photopia’s mission to reveal the archives of the most important photographers in Egypt throughout its history in various fields.”
Photographer Mohamed Bakr Sheikh is considered a photographer, having worked for more than 60 years and recording with his photographic lens the most wonderful cinematic scenes. His credit exceeds a thousand cinematic films, and he has a huge legacy of photographs of Egyptian cinema scenes throughout its history, from black and white until now, whether in front of cinema lenses. Or what goes on behind the scenes. He lived with many stars of art, politics, culture, sports and science, and among his most famous works is Naguib Mahfouz’s trilogy (Bein Kasserine, Qasr Al-Shouq, Al-Sukkaria) by director Hassan Al-Imam, The Bullet Is Still in My Pocket, The Mummy, Idol of the Masses, Al-Saqqa is Dead, Al-Fatwa, Duaa Al-Karawan, Sons of Silence, and other immortal works.
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