TITLE: "LUXOR WINDOWS AND BALCONIES", Luxor, 2018. Egypt.

The windows and balconies are like the "Eyes" of the houses.
And thought them not only the light and air come in, but we can also see outside or go and watch out from the balconies.
When something laud or exciting happens on the streets, the people appear also from the windows and on the balconies of the houses, to see what is going on.... down on the street.
This series of portraits of observers at the windows and balconies of their houses, part of the street scene, was shot in the old area of the city of Luxor, in March 2018.

AUTHOR: Monia Lippi (United States)

Monia Lippi is an Italian art-documentary photographer based in New York.
She arrived to photography through different experiences in Italy, Paris and in the US.

Interested in the American landscapes, cityscapes and particular communities and how different life-styles reflect themselves in architecture, she started to developed her personal projects.
Nocturnal Brooklyn, The Last Vintage American Cars and her aerial desert series At 36000 Feet have been shown in many different exhibitions in the US and Europe.

Some of her community projects, with particular environments, history, identity and issues are Floating Winona on the Upper Mississippi River and Chou Doc Stilts, Floating Cat Ba and White Skin, in Vietnam.

In 2018 she did different projects in the South of Egypt, photographing the people’s daily life around the city of Aswan, the near relocated Nubian Village of Gharb Soheil and around Luxor.