Cairo Towers, Egypt by Manuel Álvarez Diestro

This excellent work by Manuel Álvarez Diestro, about the wooden towers devoted to pigeon farming in Cairo, is a statement of how this a non-intentional towers can become the identity of this singular city.

As if from territories "post" war, disaster or development, to which we are accustomed many of the scenarios and landscapes of Hollywood science fiction movies, Manuel shows us that reality always surpasses fiction.

Wooden towers view for pigeon farming, Cairo, Egypt. Photograph © Manuel Álvarez Diestro.

Manuel Álvarez Diestro lived in Cairo, Egypt for four years. He decided to conduct a photographic work about the wooden towers devoted to pigeon farming. He walked in some of the most marginal areas of the metropolis including the Zabbaleen settlements (Cairo’s area devoted to informal rubbish collection ). He searched for these enigmatic structures and photograph them form a certain distance and from different angles.

His interest was to make a statement of how trough non-regulation citizens in a non-intentional way could raise these fragile structures and impact Cairo’s skyline.

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Manuel Álvarez Diestro

Manuel Álvarez Diestro. Born in Santander in 1972, he is a designer by vocation, although his professional life turned around to a marketing and communications company. He loves the creativity, innovation and the "Branding" of the big brands, which closely follows and is learning every day.

His passion rides between art and architecture and its way of expression is photography. He explores the city with his camera looking at urban landscapes to revitalize, through the image, the appreciation of cities, in their various developments. We can see these images in his latest works "New Cairo", "Pyramids," "Parabolic Facades", "Playgrounds of the World", "Souvenirs de Beyrouth", "Dystopic Songdo" and "Amphitheaters".

Published on: July 22, 2014

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