Cairo Gallery TINTERA Makes Paris Photo Main Sector Debut
After debuting in Paris Photo's Voices sector last year, Cairo gallery TINTERA moves into the fair's Main Sector as its 2026 edition marks 200 years of photography.
Cairo-based photography gallery TINTERA will enter the Main Sector of Paris Photo for the first time this November, presenting work by Bernard Guillot, Nermine Hammam and Ibrahim Ahmed at the Grand Palais.
The move follows TINTERA's appearance in the fair's Voices sector in 2025. The gallery says its 2026 selection also makes it the first gallery from Egypt to participate in Paris Photo's principal section.
Founded in Cairo in 2019, TINTERA is dedicated exclusively to photography, working across contemporary and historical practices connected to Egypt. Its programme includes exhibitions, research and long-term collaborations with artists and estates, with more than 23 artists currently working with the gallery.
Its Paris Photo presentation brings together three generations whose work approaches photography as something that can be painted, cut apart, layered and reconstructed.
BERNARD GUILLOT
Image: Untitled (the Serapeum), 2017
French artist Bernard Guillot spent decades photographing Cairo, where he lived from 1977 onwards. His work moves between documentation and memory, often using hand-painted interventions to turn familiar places into something more personal and dreamlike. TINTERA is presenting work from his long-running Cairo series, including City of the Dead and Hotel Maffet Astoria.
NERMINE HAMMAM
Image: Crisis of the Serpents, from Eschaton
Cairo-born artist Nermine Hammam layers photography with drawing, digital collage and hand-colouring to rethink familiar images of Egypt. At Paris Photo, works from A'aru and Eschaton move through Alexandria's beaches, soldiers and sunbathers, using everyday photographs to explore memory, masculinity and changing ideas of identity.
IBRAHIM AHMED
Image: Figure #10, from you can't recognise what you don't know, 2020
Ibrahim Ahmed cuts photographs apart and rebuilds them. Working with self-portraits and images from his father's family albums, the Cairo-based artist examines masculinity, family memory and the identities people inherit. His ongoing series I never revealed myself to them treats photography as material to be fragmented, woven and reconstructed.
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