Gelatin Silver Prints. Collection II

This second part of the collection represents the pinnacle of the archive—images captured with my trusted medium-format twin-lens reflex Yashica camera, a tool that demanded patience, precision, and careful attention to composition. Unlike 35mm photography, medium format uses a much larger negative, allowing for extraordinary levels of detail, tonal depth, and clarity. The result is a richness of texture and spatial presence that brings the city’s surfaces—stone, concrete, dust, shadows, and human movement—into sharper and more luminous focus.

Working with a twin-lens reflex camera also changes the act of photographing itself. Looking downward through the waist-level viewfinder slows the photographer, creating a more contemplative relationship with the street and its rhythms. Each frame becomes deliberate rather than instantaneous. These images therefore carry a different sensibility: more composed, more attentive to geometry, architecture, and the subtle choreography of everyday urban life.

Printed by hand through traditional darkroom methods using Ilford film, these photographs represent the crème de la crème of the collection—the most technically refined and visually powerful works from the series. They reveal Cairo (and Chicago) with exceptional sharpness and tonal nuance, transforming familiar streets and buildings into richly layered visual documents of a city in transition. For collectors and photography enthusiasts, these medium-format prints stand as the most accomplished expressions within the archive, combining craftsmanship, rarity, and the unmatched visual quality that only medium-format film can deliver.

Farag ibn Barquq Mosque. View of Cemetery

Silver and Stone: The Yashica Series

These medium-format prints represent the most refined works in the collection, distinguished by the extraordinary clarity, tonal richness, and depth made possible by the larger film negative. Every detail—from the grain of stone façades to the subtle gradations of light across Cairo’s streets—emerges with remarkable precision, giving the images a visual presence that smaller formats simply cannot achieve. The result is a series of photographs whose craftsmanship and material quality elevate them beyond documentation into carefully produced works of photographic art.

For collectors and connoisseurs of analog photography, these prints offer an opportunity to acquire pieces defined by both rarity and exceptional image quality. Each work stands as a carefully crafted artifact from the era of traditional darkroom photography. The available prints can be viewed and acquired through the link provided here.

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