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Our editorial now has a new home: @54Journal, the editorial publication of The Ruum Africa (@ruumafrica).

As our ecosystem continues to grow, we’ve created a dedicated space for our editorial work. Going forward, #RuumSpotlight and our future editorial series will be published on 54Journal, while 54Ruum continues as our community platform for photographers, visual artists, filmmakers, and other boundary-pushing creatives across Africa and the diaspora.

Every story we’ve published has been preserved and migrated to its new home. This is another step in our mission of building creative IP infrastructure for Africa.

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Farida Mahdy 🇪🇬 (@faridamahdy_) is an Egyptian photographer, visual artist, and assistant curator based in Cairo. Photography has been part of her life since childhood through her family’s passion for photography. She later chose to study photography and cinema instead of fashion as initially planned.

Mahdy’s work is bold, often shocking, and focused on empowering women and embracing what is different or distorted. She has been featured in The Guardian (as the first Egyptian in their “Women Behind the Lens” series), Marie Claire Italia, PhotoVogue, and LensCulture, and has taken part in numerous local exhibitions since 2021.

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Sabrina Onana 🇨🇲(@sabrinaonana__photography) est une réalisatrice et photographe italo-camerounaise installée en France. Née à Paris et élevée à Naples, elle développe une pratique artistique qui associe photographie conceptuelle, satire sociale, surréalisme et tableau vivant.

Formée à la sociologie, Sabrina s'intéresse aux questions d'identité, de migration, d'injustices sociales et de valeurs culturelles. Après avoir commencé devant l'objectif comme modèle photo, elle est passée derrière l'appareil au début de la vingtaine.

Son travail, marqué par des couleurs vives et une approche analytique, réunit ses intérêts pour la recherche, le cinéma et les arts visuels. Ses films ont été sélectionnés, projetés et récompensés dans plus de 60 festivals internationaux.

Découvrez Onana ⭐ sur 54Journal.com

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Kamal Abdulmonem 🇸🇩 (@kamal.abdulmonem) is a Sudanese documentary photographer whose work is shaped by his experiences of displacement and the search for a sense of home.

After leaving Khartoum following the outbreak of war in Sudan, Kamal began developing Temporary Cities, a photography project reflecting on movement, memory, and belonging. Selected by Through The Lens Collective (TTLC) to develop the project, he photographs people, ordinary spaces, and daily routines, drawing on experiences that began long before the war.

His story also reflects on the influence of his father, the challenges of developing a photographic practice with limited resources, and his belief in humanity and the ethics of photography.

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Abdelrahman Karam 🇪🇬 (@abdokaram__) is an Egyptian photographer from Cairo whose approach has been shaped by his architectural training and an early fascination with colour, composition, and the details people often overlook.

He works across portraiture, street, fashion, landscape, and architecture, bringing people and their environments together within his images. His work with realme and OPPO, along with opportunities to test cameras with Sony and Nikon, has also given him room to experiment with different tools while developing his own way of seeing.

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Mohamed Darweesh 🇪🇬 (@darweeech) is an Egyptian photojournalist and documentary photographer. His work focuses on street photography, everyday life, people, communities, and the cultures and traditions that shape Egyptian society. Alongside photography, Darweesh is also a novelist and poet, bringing both words and images into the way he tells stories.

Darweesh is drawn to ordinary moments and stories that might otherwise go unnoticed. From documenting workers in a red-brick factory to exploring traditional crafts, local communities, and everyday life, his work is rooted in observation, patience, and human connection.

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Gihad Abdelsamie 🇪🇬 (@gihadabdelsamie) is an Egyptian documentary photographer based in Cairo whose work focuses on everyday life, traditional crafts, local heritage, and the people behind the places she photographs.

Her practice began with street photography before developing into a deeper interest in crafts, heritage, and the stories held within ordinary places. Gihad pays close attention to light, shadow, colour, and the relationships between people and their surroundings, creating photographs that preserve details from places and ways of life that are changing.

One of the biggest changes in her practice has been learning to see differently. Returning to familiar places and discovering details she had previously overlooked has become an important part of how she understands photography.

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Hashim Nasr 🇸🇩 (@hashimnsr) is a Sudanese visual artist and photographer based in Alexandria, Egypt, whose conceptual and surreal practice explores displacement, memory, identity, and belonging.

Working with staged images, handmade objects, and symbolic visual language, Nasr creates photographs that reflect emotional and psychological landscapes. His practice began during the 2020 lockdown, when he started making self-portraits with his phone while away from his work as a dentist.

Since then, his work has been exhibited and published internationally, including at ‘The Africa Center’ in New York, Cairo Photo Week, Goethe-Institut in Cologne, and Rotterdam Photo Festival. He has also received the Prince Claus Fund Seed Award and recognition through the East African Photography Award.

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Rania Deabes 🇪🇬 (@raniaadeabes) is an Egyptian street and documentary photographer drawn to fleeting, unexpected moments and the human stories they hold. She began photographing in 2019, training in documentary and street photography at Al-Wafd, an Egyptian newspaper, before the COVID-19 pandemic led her into freelance work.

Colour, for Deabes, is an emotional language, an essential part of building an image and its feeling. Her photography focuses on the stories of women and children forced to work at an early age, and themes of loss, anger, and absence. She works slowly, building genuine relationships with the people she photographs.

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Rachid Moujahid 🇲🇦 (@ruch.story) is a Moroccan photographer and art director based in Tamraght. His photography moves between portraiture, street scenes, and lifestyle imagery, with a focus on natural coastal light, quiet moments, and the details that often go unnoticed.

He also works with surf and yoga retreats in Tamraght, creating imagery that captures the people, spaces, and atmosphere of the coastal community around him.

Moujahid began photographing with his phone in 2018 before returning to photography seriously in 2022. Since then, he has been developing his own visual language through observation, experimentation, and a close relationship with his surroundings.

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Joel Adjetey 🇬🇭 (@becklepictures) is a Ghanaian photographer and creative entrepreneur based in Accra, focused on fashion, portrait, and lifestyle campaign photography. He is largely self-taught, and his journey has been shaped by curiosity, experimentation, and a desire to create images that are refined and intentional.

From photographing his family as a child to building Beckle, his photography and visual storytelling business, Adjetey has grown from simply creating images to building a creative career around them. His work explores identity, fashion, and storytelling.

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Tamibé Bourdanné 🇹🇩 (@tamibebourdanne) is a Chadian photographer based in London whose work sits at the intersection of documentary, fashion, and portraiture.

His practice is shaped by a curiosity about people, places, and the everyday experiences that connect us. With an instinctive, unobtrusive approach, he explores human connection, culture, and Africa, while geometry, shape, and tone have become key elements of his visual language.

In 2026, Bourdanné was selected as one of British Photography Journal's Ones To Watch, recognising his evolving practice and perspective.

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