Eslam Abd El Salam
Overview
Everything you thought you knew, everything you think you know now. Atoms you hear, they hear you. Flying thoughts. That look on the face of your mother from an almost wrapped up door. The plants that form the understory in the rainforest. You among the many. Supple. Grateful. Grateful for the noise that is slowly fading in thin air, grateful for a piece of paper you kept in your pockets for a rainy day, in case you forgot. You seem stubborn but your heart is in the right place. The sound of a passerby, dressed exactly the way you are feeling. The weight of a butterfly that lost its battle. This whispering voice of yours you try to maintain. Sometimes it is good to not know things, keeping your soul in the shadows. This moment here, now, shapes everything.
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Education
Eslam Abd El Salam is a self-taught photographer & visual artist whose work tends to explore the bridge between what is personal and what is universal -- mainly through the use of analogue photography and mixed media, writing verses and symbolic drawings. His practice focuses on visualizing keywords in context of walking around and manifesting his surroundings. Notions of home, family, personal identity and godly-coincidences shape his everyday practice, which tends to be genuine and spontaneous in its approach
