Heba Fouad
Coiffeure Regaly (The Barber Shop)
Egypt is known to be a male dominant society, where men like to create their own small world around them surrounded by the male gender. Egyptian men are mostly found sitting in local ‘baladi’ coffee shops found on the streets mingling with other male friends, where they consider these places their small world of ‘men’s territory’. Unlike coffee shops, were females could be rarely found there, are barbershops. Barbershops in Egypt are unlike others in the world even in compared to Middle East shops. Here in Egypt, barbershops are basically their own private places where they would not prefer any intruders in their private habits. My challenge as a female photographer was to intervene this private life and use my camera to photograph what happens inside an Egyptian barbershop. Focusing on mainly people looking at me in the mirrors of the place and their face expressions because I am a girl interfering in a male’s territory.
Coiffeure Regaly (The Barber Shop)
Egypt is known to be a male dominant society, where men like to create their own small world around them surrounded by the male gender. Egyptian men are mostly found sitting in local ‘baladi’ coffee shops found on the streets mingling with other male friends, where they consider these places their small world of ‘men’s territory’. Unlike coffee shops, were females could be rarely found there, are barbershops. Barbershops in Egypt are unlike others in the world even in compared to Middle East shops. Here in Egypt, barbershops are basically their own private places where they would not prefer any intruders in their private habits. My challenge as a female photographer was to intervene this private life and use my camera to photograph what happens inside an Egyptian barbershop. Focusing on mainly people looking at me in the mirrors of the place and their face expressions because I am a girl interfering in a male’s territory.