Salih Basheer
| Salih Basheer | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 1, 1995 Omdurman, Sudan |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Sudanese |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | documentary photography, street photography |
| Movement | African photography |
| 🌐 Website | Salih Basheer official webpage |
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Salih Basheer (Arabic: صالح بشير, born January 1, 1995, in Omdurman, Sudan) is a Sudanese documentary photographer, living in exile. During his studies of Geography at Cairo University, Egypt, he started as a self-taught photographer and subsequently studied documentary photography in Denmark.[1]
Since 2018, he has been awarded several grants and prizes for photography, and his photo stories have been exhibited in Ethiopia, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and the United Arab Emirates.
Biography and artistic career
Basheer moved to Cairo in 2013 and received his Bachelor's degree in Geography from Cairo University in 2017. During his studies in Egypt, he started as a self-taught photographer between 2014-2015 and after his graduation, he began to work on his first long-term project titled Sweet Taste Of Sugarcane.[2] This documentary photo story about the harsh conditions of students in a khalwa, a Sudanese religious school, was shown at the international Addis Foto Fest in 2018.
His next project, called The Home Seekers, was supported by the Arab Fund for Culture and Arts (AFAC) in 2019. In this, Basheer recorded the lives of other Sudanese refugees in Cairo, who are living in exile and thus are "look[ing] inward in search for a 'home', looking for a better life and education".[3] This visual story was exhibited in October 2021 at the Ffotogallery in Cardiff, Wales.[4]
In 2020, Basheer started a diploma course in photojournalism at the Danish school of media and journalism (DMJX) in Copenhagen and was awarded a scholarship by The VII Foundation.[5] In addition, he was supported by the Shahidul Alam Grant for the development of independent photojournalism.[6]
In 2021, he received the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund student grant for his narrative project 22 Days in Between, remembering the loss of his parents and the challenges of settling into a new home with his grandmother. According to the fund, "this project is Salih’s visual process of learning more about his parents and himself and serves as a method of healing from the trauma of losing his parents. Salih says that having a camera in his hand gave him the courage and comfort level to ask questions about his parents and their deaths."[7] For the same visual story, Basheer was awarded the Everyday Projects Grant, where only two winners were selected among more than 450 applications.[8]
Among some 75 artistic projects from the contemporary African art world, Basheer was selected for the prestigious 2022 African Photography Encounters.[9]
Grants
- 2021, W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Student Grant
- 2021, Everyday Projects Grant
- 2019, Arab Documentary Photography Program, Magnum Foundation[10] & the Prince Claus Fund.
Exhibitions
- 2022, 13th edition of African Photography Encounter, Bamako, Mali.
- 2021, Mon ami n'est pas d'ici, Institut Du Monde Arabe-Tourcoing[11], Lille, France.
- 2021, Mon ami n'est pas d'ici, Les Rencontres à l'échelle[12], Marseille, France.
- 2021, More Than a Number, Diffusion Photo Festival, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.
- 2021, Through the lens of - Photographers from the African Photojournalism Database, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.[13]
- 2021, World Press Photo Exhibition in Oldenburg, Germany.[14]
- 2020, Connecting views: 16 talents from the APJD, Africa Museum, Berg en Dal, the Netherlands.[15]
- 2020, All What I Want is Life, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, UAE.[16]
- 2019, Invisible Borders, slide show presentation[17] 12th Bamako Photography Encounters, Bamako, Mali.
- 2019, Arab Street, Vol II, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, UAE.[18]
- 2019, Vantage Point Sharjah 7[19], Sharjah Art Foundation art spaces Al Mureijah Square Gallery 1 & 2, Sharjah, UAE.
- 2019, Slideshow Fest, the Odesa Photo Days Festival, Odesa, Ukraine.
- 2018, Addis Foto Fest, group exhibition, fifth edition, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
See also
References
- ↑ People's Stories Project. "Geography student turned photographer – Salih Basheer documents everyday Khartoum and Cairo". www.psp-culture.com. Retrieved 2021-12-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Addis Foto Fest (2018). "Salih Basheer". Addis Foto Fest. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22. Retrieved 2021-12-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (2019). "Salih Basheer - The Home Seekers". www.arabculturefund.org. Retrieved 2021-12-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Diffusion festival. "The Home Seekers - Salih Basheer". diffusionfestival.org. Retrieved 2021-12-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ The VII Foundation. "Seeking to challenge complex social, economic, environmental and human rights issues through documentary non-fiction storytelling and education". Retrieved 2021-12-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "International students selected for fall 2020 term – DMJX photojournalism". Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ↑ "2021 W. Eugene Smith Student Grant Recipient". W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ The Everyday Projects (2021). "2021 Grant - Salih Basheer". The Everyday Projects. Retrieved 2021-12-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ African Biennial of Photography (2012). "African biennial of photography – Bamako encounters". Retrieved 2021-12-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Announcing the 2019 Arab Documentary Photography Program Grantees". Magnum Foundation. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ↑ Institut du monde arabe-Tourcoing (2020-11-18). "ARCHIVES 2021 I Mon ami n'est pas d'ici". Institut du monde arabe-Tourcoing (in français). Retrieved 2021-12-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Mon ami n'est pas d'ici - صديقي ليس من هنا". Les Rencontres à l'Échelle (in français). Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ↑ "Through the lens of - Photographers from the African Photojournalism Database | World Press Photo". www.worldpressphoto.org. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ↑ "Everyday Africa". World Press Photo Exhibition 2020 Oldenburg (in Deutsch). Archived from the original on 2021-12-25. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ↑ "World Press Photo: Seen through the lens of..." Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
- ↑ Gulf Photo Plus (2021). "All What I Want is Life". Gulf Photo Plus. Retrieved 2021-12-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Invisible Borders in Bamako: 12th Bamako Photography Biennale, 2019 (ENG/FR), retrieved 2021-12-25
- ↑ Gulf Photo Plus. "Exhibition Opening: The Arab Street, Vol. II". Gulf Photo Plus. Retrieved 2021-12-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Sharjah Art Foundation. "Vantage Point Sharjah 2019". sharjahart.org. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22. Retrieved 2021-12-25. Unknown parameter
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External links
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