Brussels City Hall
Grand Place / Grote Markt 1
1000 Brussels
This event is in English.
Talks are free and open to the public.
You do not need to register. Be on time to secure a seat. The capacity of the venue is 200 people.
All talks are in English unless stated otherwise.
This talk presents the photographic work of Salih Basheer (b.1995, Omdurman, Sudan). After finishing high school in Sudan, he 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, and subsequently studied photojournalism in Denmark.
In 2021, Basheer received the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund student grant for his personal project 22 Days in Between. For the same project, Basheer was awarded the Everyday Projects Grant, In January 2023, Basheer published 22 Days in Between, the first ever photo-book by a Sudanese photographer, and the book was awarded the 2023, Les Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award.
In June 2022, the British Journal of Photography presented Salih as one of 15 upcoming photographers, In 2024, he joined Magnum Photos as a nominee.