a young woman helps an elderly woman down a side street strewn with rubble and two skeletons of chairs

panoramic view of Cairo

an elderly man travels to work early in the morning on his donkey on the outskirts of Cairo in the farming community

father waits with his young daughter in the outskirts of Cairo

man guarding the entrance shaft to the pyramid

man waits with his donkey outside the pyramids

stray dog outside of cairo at the entrance to the pyramids

weavers talk amongst themselves in the carpet district outside of Cairo

silk hung and ready to weave

portrait of a weaver

this bread is a staple of the Egyptian diet and served with every meal. we happened upon this woman as she prepared her bread and baked it in the wood fire oven

hanging lanterns in the Mohamed Ali mosque at the citadel

holy ground

view from the peephole into the prison row at the citadel

Dustin looks out the window of our apartment building

free range chicken

a building lays in ruin beneath the Citadel after a fire destroyed it during the revolution in January

children play kickball on a corner of an ally amidst torn-down posters for the impending election

here, cars are constatnly being repaired and put back on the street. autobody stores populate every corner; automobiles are not discarded, they are used, and fixed, and used again until they simply can no longer function at all. This vehicle will likely be back carrying passengers on the roads soon.

modes of transportation

women sweep the floor of the mosque

call to prayer

outside the mosque a woman weighs two handfulls of screaming live chickens

a man delivers a crate of freshly baked bread on his bicycle on the overpass highway

lanterns illuminate the nighttime in the khan el khalili marketplace

perfumer mixing his concoction in his tiny shop in the khan el khalili marketplace