Ibrahim El Dessouki (b. 1969, Cairo, Egypt) lives and works in Cairo as a painter of a highly condensed style in portraiture as well as in still life painting and landscape.
The Desouki artist is the architect of the dualism of shadow and light, and he is one of the few Egyptian painters who fully employed his academic artistic experience in conveying reality calmly away from fantasy but in a way that gives it an unmistakable sense of nature, and whether it is works of nature or portraiture, the centrality of Egyptian culture That captures his distinctive and attractive look to the spirit of his native country.
The best-known artist, El Desouky, holds a BA in Fine Arts from Helwan University (Egypt, 1992) and a Masters in Painting entitled “The London School and British Photography since 1945” from the same university (1997) and recently received a doctorate for his thesis “The Internal Movement in Photography” (2003) , With his pictorial portraits of women, some of which express nostalgia for women who wandered in the neighbourhood in which he was born and lived his childhood in it. Despite the simplicity of the works, the composition is distinguished by its richness, which gives depth to the photography itself.
Represented by Hafez Gallery.