How do more than 5,000 years of history and the present day of a modern country meet? What role do ancient sites and monuments play in the everyday life of a society that is constantly changing?
With "Ägypten: Geschichte und Modernität", the State Museum of Egyptian Art presents a new project by Austrian photographer Alfred Seiland, created specifically for this exhibition. Around 100 photographs from different parts of Egypt open up an unusual view of a country whose past continues to shape public space and the lives of its people.
Alfred Seiland (born 1952) is an internationally recognized photographer. After his work for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin and numerous international publications, he taught as a professor of photography at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart from 1997 to 2019.