Exhibitors List VOLTA4Youssef Nabil
Born 1970 in Cairo, Egypt
Youssef Nabil’s distinctive technique of hand-colouring silver gelatin prints recalls his upbringing in Cairo where hand-coloured family portraits still adorn people’s living rooms. While working as a photographers’ assistant in prominent studios in New York and Paris in the 1990s, he started producing his own staged, constructed and hand-coloured portraits of close friends, fellow artists and celebrities, as well as self-portraits. In 2003 he was awarded the Seydou Keita Prize for portraiture at the Biennial of African Photography in Bamako, Mali. His work has featured on numerous curated shows including, most recently, Far from Home at the North Carolina Museum of Art, USA (2008).
 Youssef Nabil, Shirin Neshat, Casablanca 2007, hand-coloured silver gelatin print, 27 x 40cm |