Photographer based in Cairo, Egypt >> Shawn Baldwin

Egypt's Daily Struggle

Egyptians struggle everyday to make ends meet.

Boats make their way down the Nile river in Cairo, Egypt. October 2010.
   
A young girl works in a cotton field in Benha, Egypt, 48 kms north of Cairo, Egypt. September 2010.
   
A man sells popcorn from a cart during a moulid in Tanta, Egypt. Every year following the October cotton harvest the Tanta moulid, a religious festival, is held to celebrate the memory of Ahmed al-Bedawi, a local 13th Century Sufi saint. The Tanta moulid, is the largest one held in Egypt attracting at least tens of thousands of people from around the country. October 2008.
     
  
Customers look through a window while waiting to buy bread at a small bread factory in a poor neighborhood in Cairo. June 2008.
   
A shepherd keeps watch over his flock on a busy street in Cairo. Cairo is home to 15 million and often described as the center of the Arab world, an incubator of culture and ideas. But it is also a collection of villages, a ruralized metropolis where people live by their wits and devices, cut off from the authorities, the law and often each other. January 2007.
   
Customers look on as a worker pours sugar cane juice at the Saad Afifi Sons - Sugarcane Juice shop in Cairo, Egypt. The juice made from sugar cane sells for less than 10 cents each. May 2007.
     
  
Zabbaleen and pig farmer Morgan Girgis, 30-years-old, chases after a pig which will be brought to the slaughter house, inside a pig pen beside his home in a predominately Coptic Christian neighborhood in Manshiet Nasser in Cairo, Egypt. He was forced by the government to sell his pigs. May 2009.
   
Brides and grooms prior to a mass wedding ceremony in Idku, Egypt. November 2007.
   
Egyptian women hold a poster of Makarem el-Dairi, left, a 55-year old widow and holder of a PH.D. in Arabic literature and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who is running as an independent for a seat in parliament, during a march in Cairo. Makarem has just become the only woman in Egypt's election campaign to run under the banner of the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned group that says woman's place is first and foremost in the home. November 2005.
     
  
Fishermen ply their trade on the Nile in Cairo. Cairo is home to 15 million and often described as the center of the Arab world, an incubator of culture and ideas. But it is also a collection of villages, a ruralized metropolis where people live by their wits and devices, cut off from the authorities, the law and often each other. January 2007.
   
Ahmed Mohamed Sayyid Mohamed prays prior to the main Friday prayer at the Sayyida Zeinab mosque in Cairo, Egypt. Ahmed prays before and after the main prayer for extra 'points'. November 2007.
   
An Egyptian woman leaves a voting booth at a polling station in Alexandria, Egypt. Egyptian police restricted voting in areas contested by the opposition Muslim Brotherhood on Saturday and detained hundreds of Islamists trying to build on early success in parliamentary elections. November 2005.
     
  
A young girl looks on as hundreds of people search for survivors after a rockslide hit a Cairo shanty town. Twenty people were killed and hundreds more missing when a massive rockslide hit a crowded Cairo shanty town on Saturday, sending rocks and boulders crashing down on dozens of houses. September 2008.
   
A member of the Egyptian security forces tries to hold back the crowd inside a vote counting area in Al-Mansurah, Egypt. The final phase of Egypt's month-long parliamentary polls kicked off amid high tension, with the Muslim Brotherhood and the country's judges determined to resist state interference. December 2005.
   
Brides pick wedding gowns prior to a mass wedding ceremony in Idku, Egypt. November 2007.
     
  
Hawkers sell cotton candy on the corniche in Alexandria, Egypt. November 2007.
   
The Citadel at sunset in Cairo, Egypt. December 2009.