ABSTRACT
Eman Helal is an Egyptian photographer based in Cairo. She covered the 2011 Egyptian revolution and its aftermath, including a project on injured protesters as well as work on sectarian violence against Christians, especially after the 2013 military coup. Helal was named one of Magnum Foundation’s five Human Rights Fellows in 2013, and returned to work with the Foundation again as a Fellow in 2016. She judged the Shawkan Photo Award in 2015, and both the Egypt Press Photo Award and the Portenier Human Rights Bursary competition in 2016. This chapter presents an interview of Helal by the author. In the interview, Helal talks about her photography career and describes some of the photographs taken by her, covering various incidents in Egypt.
