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CAIRO BY NIGHT
The story
behind the photo
TIRE
REPAIRS, TAHRIR ROAD Photo
and text by Youssef Rakha My
overenthusiastic escort was among a small group of young men playing a
game of football right in the middle of the road. It was long past
midnight, and they would stop momentarily to make way for the occasional
vehicle hurtling past. To my distress, by the time I made their
acquaintance the ball had been kicked unequivocally out of sight. They
spent a long time introducing themselves: mechanics, taxi drivers and
their neighbors from the back streets of Dokki or, as they insisted on
calling it, Dayer Ennahya. To
them the presence of a so called photojournalist in their midst was a
moment of glory: the purveyor of the nearest tire repairs shop -- not
necessarily very comfortable about his shop being photographed -- was
presented to me as a monarch, almost, while my self-appointed escort
became principal courtier, as it were; which might explain the
self-satisfied, almost proud smile with which he now pointed to the shop
interior. From
a work in progress called "Monochrome Cairo" by Youssef Rakha,
who can be contacted at yrakha@link.net 
Technical
specifications: The photo was taken on Kodak TMAX 400 film rated at ISO
3200, push processed and printed on Kodabrome F3 paper, using Nikon F601
and 28-80 Nikkor zoom lens. Previous
installment:
FARGHALI FRUIT JUICE, DOKKI
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