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In 1991, Ayman Lotfy graduated from the faculty of arts at the Ain Shams University. Lotfy started his career route as a fashion designer and stepped forward to become a professional art director in 1996. In 1998, Lotfy launched his journey to the world of photography with the aim of enhancing his work as an art designer.
Career and posts
Lotfy is the Middle East Region Director of Photographic Society of America (RDPSA) since 2007. He earned Fine Art Photography Associateship of The Malta Institute of Professional Photography (AMIPP) in 2010, the Fine Art Photography and got his Fellow ship in Fine Art Photography in 2014 (FMIPP) - Associateship of the Society of Wedding & Portrait Photographers in 2010, and Egyptian Association for Photography.
HONORARY FELLOW ICS-HON.F.ICS "The Image Colleague Society, International.USA
Art Style
Ayman Lotfy mixes different tools of staging, painting, and lighting to produce fine art photographs and videos. He utilizes the technological trends in digital photography with careful filtering choices. Lotfy also integrates photography and videos with large three-dimensional installations as in his work The search for salvation, which presented at the La Biennale di Venezia in 2010, and The Game at the Why not? Exhibition in The Palace of Arts-Opera House-Cairo in 2009.
Solo exhibits
2017 - Artery -El Bab gallery - Museums of modern art - Cairo opera House
2013 - THE HIDDEN - Experimental Photography, Crete, GREECE.
2012 - Romania Art of Photography (Bibliotheca Alexandrina) with Teodor Pantea.
2011 - 2009 A Geminate, Experimental Photography, Video Performance & Installation at Gezira Art Centers, Cairo,Egypt.
2009 - Body Art Photography Exhibition with fine Art Photography Lecture - Malta
2009 - Gemini, Fine Art Photography & Performance Art, Al Gezira Art Centers, Cairo, Egypt.
2006 - The Other Side of Faces, Body painting Photography Exhibition, El Sawy Culture Center, Cairo, Egypt.
Selected exhibits and awards include
2005: Bronze Medal at the Venice International Photo Contests, Italy.
2006: Triereneberg Super Circuit, Austria.
2007: Honorable Mention at the Venice International Photo Contest, Italy.
2007: Photo Exhibition in Nepal.
2008: Grand Photography Master Award at the China Jinan Contemporary International Photography Biennale, China
2009: The Body Art in Malta
2009: Torino International Book Fair in Italy
2010: Best Photography Award at the China Jinan Contemporary International Photography Biennale, China
2010: Bronze Pinhole Award at the China Jinan Contemporary International Photography Biennale, China
2010: Qilo International Photography Award at the China Jinan Contemporary International Photography Biennale, China
2010: Gold Medal of Excellence at the Experimental Photography Trierenberg Super Circuit in Austria
2010: 12th Cairo International Biennale in Egypt
2011 AMIPP - ASWPP Association ship from Malta international Professional Photographers and UK Photography Association
2013 HONORARY FELLOW ICS-HON.F.ICS "The Image Colleague Society, International.USA
2014 Future Speaker Award - New Mexico Photographic conference by PSA
2014 FMIPP - FSWPP Association ship from Malta international Professional Photographers and UK Photography Association
2015 SPSA - Silver Degree in Conceptual Photography from PSA - Photographic society of America
2015 PSA International Representative of the Year Award-USA by Photographic society of America - PSA
2016 State Encouragement Awards for the year 2016
Commissioned artwork
Lotfy's artworks are featured in public places as the :
2012 - Panoramic Photography 1.5x4.5 m in the New African Union Addis Ababa - Ethiopia.
2011 - Photography & Painting Panorama - El Hanager Sealing (2500 Sq2) Cairo Opera House.
2010 - Alexandria Panorama 14 X 3 m (Egyptian Pavilion - Expo Shanghai China).
2009 - Other Live: 2 Fine Art Photography, Alexandria Library entrance (Bibliotheca Alexandria).
2008 - People of the World: 14 Photography & Body painting Artwork, New Cairo International Airport, Terminal 3.
Publications
Lotfy,Ayman (ed.) (2011). A Geminate- Experimental Photography
Lofty, Ayman (ed.) (2009). Fine Art Photography. Cairo: Alamia Publishing & Advertising. ISBN 978-600-02-1344-2.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
Lofty, Ayman (ed.) (2006). The other side of faces. Cairo: Alamia Publishing & Advertising.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
Articles published in Photographic Society of America Journal
Ayman Lotfy. Art photography. PSA Journal; August 2008.
Ayman Lotfy. Body Painting. PSA Journal; July 2009.
