Urban Memory:
A Photographic Archive of Cities, Architecture, and Everyday Landscapes
This section presents a curated selection of archival reproductions drawn from my photographic archive, assembled over several decades of travel, research, and personal exploration. The images document a range of urban and architectural environments—from the dense streets of Cairo, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, and Amman to quieter landscapes encountered in places such as Milan and Lancaster County. Together they form a visual record of cities in transition, capturing fragments of everyday life, overlooked buildings, and urban atmospheres that are gradually disappearing.
The archive includes photographs originating from my 35mm and medium-format negatives as well as color slides, many taken during fieldwork and personal journeys, alongside a later body of digital images captured with my trusted Fuji X100 rangefinder camera. The analog originals have been scanned at high resolution using a professional Epson archival scanner and printed on a high-end Epson photographic printer to preserve the tonal richness and depth characteristic of film. All prints are produced on Hahnemühle Digital FineArt archival paper, widely regarded as one of the finest museum-quality papers available, ensuring both visual precision and long-term durability suitable for collectors and exhibitions.
While most works in this series are produced as archival inkjet reproductions from scanned negatives, a selection of the images is also available as traditional gelatin silver prints, created through darkroom processes that retain the tactile qualities and tonal depth of classic black-and-white photography. Each photograph is issued as a signed limited print, maintaining a close connection to the analog origins of the archive while offering collectors a carefully crafted image drawn from a broader photographic chronicle of the contemporary urban world.