Miral Ramzy Photography Collection

Miral Ramzy is a graduate of the Interior Design Department of Alexandria University's Faculty of Fine Arts. She currently works as an interior designer in metropolitan Cairo and as a photographer for MIRAL Photography. Those visitors who want to see more of her work can do so by contacting her at:

miralramzy (at) gmail.com

Miral took up general photography seriously in 2006. Her subjects include portraiture, urban and rural scenes of daily life, and landscapes. But her search for a design vocabulary led Miral to examine and document her Egyptian architectural heritage, especially the decorative and functional elements and motifs of those styles (Art Deco and Art Nouveau) that might best inform her own work. Miral found the urban patrimony, both of her native al-Iskandariyya and adopted al-Qahira, to be a surprisingly rich source of models. She began to invest a greater part of her considerable photographic creativity into picturing it, focusing first on the deft details that the khedival builders, architects, and decorators had left behind. Miral says that, having discovered the beauty in these buildings, she hopes that her work can spur Egyptians and non-Egyptians to awareness of it and action to preserve it.

• Brian Broadus