State & Barracks

State & Barracks

Diary #21

2007

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Hossam el-Hamalawy
May 30, 2024
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The Suez Canal workers’ protests in Ismailia, 9 September 2008. Photo by Jano Charbel.

I read this quote by Robert Capa sometime in 2007, and since then, I have tried my best to put it into practice: “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.” It’s advice that has served me well, and I always tell it to anyone who wants to get into photography.

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