Ahmed Gaber

Arab Documentary Photography Program

Cairo, Egypt

My name is Ahmed Gaber, I'm an Egyptian photographer born in 1996 in Al-Buhaira governorate in the Nile Delta. i found my self in photography 5 years ago then I started working with local newspapers and magazines and now I work as a freelance photographer, I'm interested in working on stories that discuss social problems and human rights , currently working on covering the water shortage problems in the nile delta.

2015 - Egypt press photo , 2015 - El sekkia photo contest, 2016 - Sony photography awards

Arts
Portrait
Video capture

Arabic
English

water shortage

Ahmed Gaber

Abdelrahman Mahmmoud 6 years old. He told me that him and his friends in the village were always used to fishing in the riverbed right in front of the house and now these canals are dismantled and there’s no water. “There’s nothing else but garbage, so we invent any other games to entertain ourselves

water shortage

Ahmed Gaber

one of the farmers in bahr al-tibn washing his horse with sewage water, a lot of animals in the village became week and sick from drinking the sewage water.

Palestinian refugees

Ahmed Gaber

Embraced by her son,haja Shama 90, fleet her home town in Bir al-saba,Palestine 1948 during the Nakba to Egypt with her family and settled on fadel island in Sharkya, Nile Delta. They thought that they might stay there for a short time but they didn't leave till now. Now more than 3500 Palestinian refugee lives on fadel island in terrible conditions , dreaming to go back to their homeland everyday.