Salih Basheer Explained

Salih Basheer
Native Name:Arabic: صالح بشير
Native Name Lang:Arabic
Birth Place:Omdurman, Sudan
Nationality:Sudanese
Field:Photography
Movement:African photography

Salih Basheer (Arabic: صالح بشير‎, born January 1, 1995)[1] is a Sudanese photographer.

Since 2018, he has been awarded several grants and prizes for photography, and his photo stories have been exhibited in Ethiopia, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and the United Arab Emirates. His 2023 publication 22 Days in Between is the first photo-book ever by a Sudanese photographer.

Early life and education

Basheer was born in Omdurman, Sudan.[1]

After finishing secondary school in Sudan, he moved to Cairo in 2013 and received his Bachelor's degree in Geography from Cairo University in 2017. During his studies in Egypt, he started as a self-taught photographer.[2]

Life and work

After his graduation, Basheer began to work on his first long-term project titled Sweet Taste Of Sugarcane.[2] This documentary Photo Story about the harsh conditions of students in a khalwa, a Sudanese religious school, was shown at the international Addis Foto Fest in 2018.

His next project, called The Home Seekers, was supported by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) in 2019. In this, Basheer recorded the lives of other Sudanese refugees in Cairo, who are living in exile and thus are "look[ing] inward in search for a 'home', looking for a better life and education".[3] This visual story was exhibited in October 2021 at the Diffusion Festival in Cardiff, Wales[4] and the same year in France as part of the group exhibition "Mon ami n'est pas d'ici" at the Institut du Monde Arabe's exhibition space in Tourcoing,[5] as well as at the festival "Les Rencontres à l'échelle" in Marseille.[6] In 2020, Basheer started a diploma course in photojournalism at the Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX) in Aarhus and was awarded a scholarship by The VII Foundation.[7] [8] In addition, he obtained the Shahidul Alam Grant for the development of independent photojournalism by the Danish School of Media and Journalism.[9]

In 2021, Basheer received the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund student grant for his narrative project 22 Days in Between, remembering the loss of his parents and the challenges of settling into a new home with his grandmother. According to the fund,

"This project is Salih's visual process of learning more about his parents and himself and serves as a method of healing from the trauma of losing his parents. Salih says that having a camera in his hand gave him the courage and comfort level to ask questions about his parents and their deaths."[10]
For the same visual story, Basheer was awarded the Everyday Projects Grant.[11] In 2022, he received another grant from AFAC through their visual arts program for 22 Days in Between.[12] His photographs were selected for the 2022 African Photography Encounters in Bamako, Mali.[13]

In June 2022, the British Journal of Photography presented Basheer as one of 15 upcoming photographers to watch.[14]

In January 2023, Basheer published 22 Days in Between, the first ever photo-book by a Sudanese photographer, that evokes his early childhood and memories of his parents, who died within the period of 22 days, when Basheer was only 3 years old. An article in the British Journal of Photography described this photo-book as an "introspective narrative [...] explored through various formats: personal writing, self-portraits, archive images, and drawings that Basheer drew recently but from the perspective of a child – to uphold the idea that he is still a kid longing to bond with his parents."[15] In his review in The Washington Post, Kenneth Dickerman said:[16]

Publications

Grants and awards

Group and solo exhibitions

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023-03-22. A B O U T – Salih Basheer. Salihbasheer.
  2. Web site: Addis Foto Fest. 2018. Salih Basheer. 2021-12-25. Addis Foto Fest. en-US.
  3. Web site: Arab Fund for Arts and Culture. 2019. Salih Basheer – The Home Seekers. 2021-12-25. www.arabculturefund.org.
  4. Web site: Diffusion festival. The Home Seekers – Salih Basheer. 2021-12-25. diffusionfestival.org.
  5. Web site: 2020-11-18. Archives 2021 I Mon ami n'est pas d'ici IMA-Tourcoing. 2022-01-09. IMA-Tourcoing Institut du monde arabe-Tourcoing. fr-FR.
  6. Web site: Mon ami n'est pas d'ici – صديقي ليس من هنا. 2022-01-09. Les Rencontres à l'Échelle. fr.
  7. Web site: International students selected for spring 2021 – DMJX photojournalism . 2022-08-11 . en-US.
  8. Web site: The VII Foundation. Seeking to challenge complex social, economic, environmental and human rights issues through documentary non-fiction storytelling and education. 2021-12-25. en-US.
  9. Web site: International students selected for fall 2020 term – DMJX photojournalism. 2021-12-25. en-US.
  10. Web site: 2021. 2021 W. Eugene Smith Student Grant Recipient. 2021-12-25. W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. en-US.
  11. Web site: The Everyday Projects. 2021. 2021 Grant – Salih Basheer. 2021-12-25. The Everyday Projects. en-US.
  12. Web site: 2022-08-11 . Introducing AFAC's 2022 Visual Arts Grantees . 2022-08-11 . www.arabculturefund.org.
  13. Web site: African Biennial of Photography . 2012 . African biennial of photography – Bamako encounters . 2021-12-25 . en-US.
  14. Web site: Eleode . Emi . Salih Basheer's dreamlike images explore home, belonging and loss – 1854 Photography . 2022-08-11 . www.1854.photography . en-GB.
  15. Web site: Durie . Alexander . Salih Basheer gathers memories from before his parents' death. 2023-03-05 . www.1854.photography . en-GB.
  16. News: 2023-03-03 . Perspective This book is a profound meditation on memory and identity . 2023-03-05 . Washington Post . en.
  17. Web site: Salih Basheer – 22 Days in Between . Disko Bay . en.
  18. Web site: Salih Basheer win The Everyday Projects Grant – DMJX photojournalism . 2022-08-11 . en-US.
  19. Web site: Announcing the 2019 Arab Documentary Photography Program Grantees. 2021-12-25. Magnum Foundation. en-US.
  20. Web site: Winner Announcement . 2022-08-11 . Tasweer . en.
  21. Web site: Announcing the 2022 Counter Histories Grantees . 2022-08-11 . Magnum Foundation . en-US.
  22. Web site: CAP Prize – International Prize for Contemporary African Photography . 2022-08-11 . CAP Prize . en-US.
  23. Web site: 22 Days in Between – The Photo Textbook Award Winner . 2023-09-12 . Arles Photography Festival.
  24. Web site: Vantage Point Sharjah 2019. 2021-12-25. Sharjah Art Foundation.
  25. Web site: World Press Photo: Seen through the lens of.... 2021-12-25. Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal. en.
  26. Web site: Everyday Africa. 2021-12-25. World Press Photo. de-DE.
  27. Web site: Through the lens of – Photographers from the African Photojournalism Database. 2021-12-25. World Press Photo.
  28. Web site: 2023-08-30 . See You at Photofairs NY! . 2023-09-12 . Magnum Foundation . en-US.

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