Youssef Nabil
Born in 1972, Cairo, Egypt
Lives and works in New York
Photography
Youssef Nabil had been the assistant of David LaChapelle and then Mario Testino, and a long-time friend of legendary photographer Van Leo. The 90s welcomed Youssef Nabil's rising talent, and his first personal exhibit took place in 1999. In 2003, he received the Seydou Keita Prize at the African Photo Biennial of Bamako. Youssef Nabil, who very early on became aware of the aesthetics of Egyptian films of the 1940s, added colours by hand so as to give eternal life to his photos, which were originally shot in black and white. As in life, his work features powerful feelings like love, desire and death, and he delivers a painted diary that has been on exhibit both at the British Museum (London) and at the Aperture Foundation (New York), and more recently at the Villa Médicis (Rome), in Arles (France) and at the MACBA in Barcelona (Spain).
Lives and works in New York
Photography
Youssef Nabil had been the assistant of David LaChapelle and then Mario Testino, and a long-time friend of legendary photographer Van Leo. The 90s welcomed Youssef Nabil's rising talent, and his first personal exhibit took place in 1999. In 2003, he received the Seydou Keita Prize at the African Photo Biennial of Bamako. Youssef Nabil, who very early on became aware of the aesthetics of Egyptian films of the 1940s, added colours by hand so as to give eternal life to his photos, which were originally shot in black and white. As in life, his work features powerful feelings like love, desire and death, and he delivers a painted diary that has been on exhibit both at the British Museum (London) and at the Aperture Foundation (New York), and more recently at the Villa Médicis (Rome), in Arles (France) and at the MACBA in Barcelona (Spain).
