Corona Kites II - Limited Edition of 5 Photograph

Nihal Tamraz is a photographer and a professional researcher, as well as a Communication and Media professional. She has a focused interest in photography and the architecture of Cairo. With a BA and MA in Islamic Art and Architecture from the American University in Cairo (AUC), Tamraz’ award winning MA Thesis became the Book “Nineteenth Century Cairene Houses and Palaces” (AUC press, 1998), after winning the Frank G. Wisner Award for the ‘Best Written Master’s Thesis’ in 1993. Nihal studied Black and White photography during her BA years at AUC. She curated the photographic Exhibition “Garo Balian: An Ottoman Court Architect in Modern Egypt” at the Sony Gallery, AUC in 1994. Thereafter, the exhibition was invited to be exhibited at Al al-Bayt University, Jordan in 1995. Tamraz worked as a photographer for The Middle East Times, Cairo Today and has photographs published in the Los Angeles Times and Time Magazine. She was also the photographic researcher for TIME-LIFE Books from 1986-1998. This involved archival research primarily in the major Egyptian newspapers, news agencies and museum archives, dealing with diverse subjects such as World War II, Egyptology, and Islamic Art and Architecture. Tamraz was the photographic assistant for TIME magazine Middle East photographer, Barry Iverson (1986-1994) and researcher of the locations and the historical text for the Book “Comparative Views of Egypt: Cairo One Hundred Years Later”, By Barry Iverson (Zeitouna Press, 1994). This landmark book familiarized her knowledge of 19th century photographers in Egypt and their rich processes. Additionally, Tamraz was a curator at the Rare Books and Special Collections Library (RBSCL), AUC where she ordered and catalogued old photographs 1992-1993. These included the Creswell archives and important photographs of Sébah, Frith, Beato among others. She later on moved onto becoming the Associate Director of Media at the Office of Public Relations at AUC from 1994-2006. Tamraz then established the Photographic Archive for the University which played a key role in publishing it’s news and photographs in worldwide news publications. She was responsible for the worldwide publicity of the collection acquisition of the legendary Cairene photographer Van Leo in 1998, as well as the discovery of the Tomb KV5 in Luxor.