{"product_id":"cairo-portraits-stefan-ruiz","title":"Cairo Portraits - Stefan Ruiz","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2003, photographers Stefan Ruiz and Artin Sarafian independently turned their cameras toward Cairo. Working separately, they were drawn to the city’s people, performers, workers, families, dreamers, and passersby.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir paths converged at Studio Atro D’Art, Sarafian’s photography studio in downtown Cairo, where the traditions of studio portraiture became a meeting point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCairo Portraits\u003c\/em\u003e brings these two bodies of work together for the first time, moving between the public and intimate, the spontaneous and carefully staged. Together, the photographs offer a portrait of Cairo shaped by its people and by the visual cultures of portraiture and self-representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore than two decades later, the photographs take on new meaning. As historic studios disappear under urban change and digital image-making, these photographs offer a record of a city, its people, and a particular moment in the art of photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned around an 114-page folding structure, the book allows both bodies of work to be viewed simultaneously, creating a physical record of the brief intersection between two photographers and their perspectives on portraiture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiddle East Archive, 2026 \u003cbr\u003eSoftcover, 144pp \u003cbr\u003e240 x 170mm \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tenderbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64938260169081,"sku":"Cairo Portraits","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0488\/8029\/files\/Tenderbooks-18_2a6c5361-c50a-44e2-a305-bc65e5ab3c10.jpg?v=1792419699","url":"https:\/\/tenderbooks.pro\/products\/cairo-portraits-stefan-ruiz","provider":"Tenderbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}