Heba Farid is an artist, curator, researcher and educator in photography, based in Cairo. She has a background in architecture from Canada and the USA, and currently teaches photography in the Visual Arts program at the American University in Cairo. She is a founder of the Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) an art centre dedicated to the visual image in Cairo. Both independently and as the former coordinator of the photographic heritage program for CULTNAT, a satellite of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, she has curated and collaborated on exhibitions based on historic photograph collections and has participated in and published articles for several regional symposiums and journals on archiving and Egypt’s photographic heritage. Having received professional training in preservation and management of photograph collections, she is an alumni of the Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative.More...