Women behind the lens: ‘My grandma dressed like a celebrity, even matching the colour of her cigarettes to her outfits’

Egyptian photographer and curator Farida Mahdy was inspired to document her grandmother’s style after finding a collection of her photos This image is a portrait of me and my grandmother, Ehsan Ouf, in her flat in Cairo. It is part of a project Grandma and the Fur Coat that I…

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