About
Dania Hany (b.1995) is a Photographer/Visual Storyteller based between Turkey and Egypt.
Driven by a curiosity to learn more about her family history that extends to the mountains of the Caucasus; her work relies on using the personal as a primary subject matter. Working primarily with analog and secondly with digital for commissions, the camera is her medium to document places and people in relation to their surroundings.
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
GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
AFAC - Arab Documentary Photography Program, 2019
ISSP - Photography & The World 2019
Tandem Scholarship for ISSP, 2019
Prince Claus Foundation - Mobility Grant, 2019
ONLINE MENTIONS
IGNANT
Witness - World Press Photo
Filtergrade
Available to work on assignment
Email: daniahany8@gmail.com
︎ @daniahany_
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
ISSP - Photography and The World Group Exhibition, Latvia, 2019
LoosenArt, “Memories” Group Exhibition, Rome, Italy, 2018
She Tells Group Exhibition, Curated by Soma Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, 2018
Supermarket - Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
Roznama Group Exhibition at Medrar in collaboration with CiC (Contemporary Image Collective),
Awarded by CiC, 2015
Women’s Association Group Exhibition, in collaboration with Al-Qomra Photographic Collective, 201526th Youth Salon, Qasr El-Fenoun, 2015