EGYPT — WHAT THE LAND HOLDS: BETWEEN CAIRO AND SINAI

In this photographic essay, Nourhan Eltoukhi moves between Cairo and Sinai to explore how people live with the places around them. 

Dense city streets, pockets of green, stone, mountains and water form a changing backdrop to ordinary gestures of care and belonging. 

The series asks how a place becomes part of us, and how we become part of it.

What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai
What the Land Holds — Fragments of Life Between Cairo and Sinai