“Eye of the Blossom” – Interview with artist Amr Mounib

Arab Spring: An Inflorescence in Photos

by John A. Bray

Whatever becomes of the politics of Egypt’s “Arab Spring,” the future of the country’s blooms certainly appears bright, colorful and clear. Really clear.

So it seems through the eye of Amr Mounib, whose compelling flower photographs from Egypt are on exhibit at The Jerusalem Fund Gallery Al-Quds in Washington, D.C., located at 2425 Virginia Ave., across from the Watergate complex. The Eye of the Blossom exhibit runs through April 22, 2016.

Intimacy suffuses the photographer-subject relationship, which had its beginnings in Mounib’s childhood Cairo home. The garden teemed with color and flavor.

 

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