Available to work on assignment
︎ daniahany8@gmail.com
︎ @daniahany_
About
Dania Hany b.1995, is a Cairo based artist working with analog photography, text and archives.
Her work explores themes of memory, poetry and intuition, engaging intimacy with personal
narratives and tracing oral history.
Her work has been published in online magazines and blogs such as iGNANT and World Press Photo's Witness and exhibited in Cairo at Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo Photo Week, Rome at LoosenArt Gallery, Stockholm as part of Supermarket - Stockholm Independent Art Fair and Latvia at the International Summer School of Photography.
In 2019, she was selected for the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) grant/mentorship, mentored by Eric Gottesman.
︎Cairo, Egypt
ONLINE MENTIONS
The British Journal of Photography
IGNANT
Witness - World Press Photo
Filtergrade
CLIENTS
Drosos Foundation
Eklego Design
Startup Guide
The Danish Institute for Dialogue
CiC - Contemporary Image Collective
Inca&Co
Artist Statement
My work explores themes of memory, poetry and intuition. I mainly use analog photography as my medium for documentation but my work also includes drawing, text and archives.
My method of work moves between intuition and a research based methodology. In my day to day practice I rely on intuition to guide me through foreign places in an attempt to find intimacy and familiarity in them. I’m interested in how we perceive the spaces that surround us and how we remember them, guided by intuition I try to weave myself and my own memories and experiences in and out of the work I produce.
While working on long-term projects, I rely on a research based methodology yet reserving a poetic approach to the visual form and narrative. In my recent ongoing project, I trace my family’s roots that go all the way to the mountains of the Caucasus, a big part of that project is researching the bigger narrative of history during that time period -late 19th century- but also documenting the oral history within my family, the stories that are inherited from one generation to another. The project also centers around questions of belonging, inherent memory and how trauma can be finely woven and inherited across generations.
My work explores themes of memory, poetry and intuition. I mainly use analog photography as my medium for documentation but my work also includes drawing, text and archives.
My method of work moves between intuition and a research based methodology. In my day to day practice I rely on intuition to guide me through foreign places in an attempt to find intimacy and familiarity in them. I’m interested in how we perceive the spaces that surround us and how we remember them, guided by intuition I try to weave myself and my own memories and experiences in and out of the work I produce.
While working on long-term projects, I rely on a research based methodology yet reserving a poetic approach to the visual form and narrative. In my recent ongoing project, I trace my family’s roots that go all the way to the mountains of the Caucasus, a big part of that project is researching the bigger narrative of history during that time period -late 19th century- but also documenting the oral history within my family, the stories that are inherited from one generation to another. The project also centers around questions of belonging, inherent memory and how trauma can be finely woven and inherited across generations.
GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
AFAC - Arab Documentary Photography Program, 2019
ISSP - Photography & The World 2019
Tandem Scholarship for ISSP, 2019
Prince Claus Foundation - Mobility Grant, 2019
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
An Expression of Absence, Magnum Foundation & Bronx Documentary Centre, New York, USA 2022
Photography and The World Group Exhibition - ISSP, Zaļenieki, Latvia, 2019
Memories - LoosenArt Gallery, Rome, Italy, 2018
She Tells - Soma Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, 2018
Supermarket - Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
Roznama - Medrar in collaboration with CiC (Contemporary Image Collective), Awarded by CiC, 2015
Women’s Association, in collaboration with Al-Qomra Photographic Collective, 201526th Youth Salon, Qasr El-Fenoun, 2015