Hesham Elsherif, born in 1997, is a freelance photographer from Egypt and currently based in Dortmund, Germany. He started photography in 2013 by documenting the civil unrest Egypt witnessed after the Egyptian army ousted Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president. At the time, he was a 16-year-old student with a point-and-shoot camera, living in a village located 100-kilometer southwest of the capital, Cairo. Since then, he became interested in documenting the daily life of his hometown, Fayoum, as well as covering in-depth cultural and social documentary stories. In 2017, he was a grantee of The Arab Documentary Photography Program from AFAC/Prince Claus Fund/Magnum Foundation. He moved to Dortmund in 2022, where he started his Masters in Photography at Fachhochschule Dortmund. Hesham’s photos have been published in The New York Times, CNN, BBC, The Week, Forbes, The Gaurdian, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, 11 Freunde, Stern, Süddeutsche Zeitung and many more.