roger.anis@gmail.com

Roger Anis is a Documentary Photographer and curator.

In between Egypt >> Netherlands

Roger Anis is an Egyptian Documentary photographer, Photo editor & Curator. He received his bachelor in fine arts in 2008 from Egypt and started his career as a photojournalist in 2010, working with different newspapers and international news agencies. His work got published in various international newspapers and news agencies like AP, AFP, Getty Images, New York Times, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Le Monde, De Grona Amsterdam, The Guardian and many others next to my work with International Organizations like UNICEF, UNDP. UNFPA, UNWoman.

His work got exhibited in Egypt and internationally in the Institue Du Monde Arabe in Paris, The Hermitage Museum in Russia, the MUCEM museum in Marseille, Heads on Photo Festival in Australia, Bamako Biennale in Mali and many other venues worldwide in Turkey, USA, Singapore, India, The Netherlands.

In 2015 he received a degree in photojournalism from the Danish School of Media & Journalism in Denmark.

Roger’s work and photo stories focus on trying to shed light on important subjects and social issues in our communities. He works on hidden or underreported levels and on essential topics we don’t see or forget about.

Currently, Roger is doing his master’s at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Netherlands, focusing on water and rivers. Next to be the Artistic Director and Co-founder of EverydayNile Initiative, which empowers visual storytellers from the Nile basin countries to tell visual stories about the Nile and water in their countries.

In his practice, he tries to experiment and expand to include different visual mediums that he can combine with his photography next to filmmaking.

  • Artist in Residence “ La Friche Belle de Mai “” Marseille / France 2021 - 2022

  • AFAC grantee – Documentary photography program 2020

  • Syndicate of Journalism 1st Award for photojournalism 2020 

  • Shortlisted for CAP Award 2020

  • Egypt Press Photo Award 2020

  • Shortlisted for CAP award 2019

  • Finalist Obscure Festival 2019 

  • AFAC Grantee – Visual Arts Grant 2018

  • Nominee Paul Hauf Award 2018

  • Shortlisted for th Joopswart Masterclass with World Press Photo 2016 ,17,18

  • Egypt Press Photo Award 2017

  • Reporting Rights Livelihood “ Alternative Nobel “ Grantee  2017

  • Shortlisted for the Contemporary African Photography Award 2016

  • Honorable Mention “ UNICEF photo of the year “ 2015

  • The first Thomson Reuters Microsoft photo award winner 2014 

  • UN-Woman special mention “ photography Competition “ 2014 

  • Best picture of the year in Egypt 2013 Competition by the Syndicate of Journalism  - 2nd place 2013 “ Photo Story “

  • World Press Photo ” Reporting Change “Project , Grants Winner 2013.

  • Foundry Workshop Scholarship ” Thailand 2012 “.

  • 2nd Prize Media Developing Center Contest USAID Program 2011 

  • 2nd Prize Best picture of the year in Egypt 2011 Competition by the Syndicate of Journalism  - 2011.

  • European Union Photography Competition “ Special Mention of the Jury “ 2010 Egypt Celebration.

Grants & Awards

  • Challenging Times: On Climate Change -Cairo Photo Week - Feb 2023

  • Troubled water, Masahat Festival, Oslo/Norway - Sept 2022 

  • EverydayNile - Goethe Institute Cairo - June 2022

  • The Eternal River - American University in Cairo - March 2022

  • Mediterranean Cities - MUCEM Museum - Marseille - Sept 2021

  • Afrika Fest - Paris - April 2021

  • Everyday Africa - Cairo Photo Week - Mar 2021

  • Rencontres De Bamako Biennale Dec 2019

  • * “ Hakawi “ Exhibition in Paris - Sept 2019

  • * Obscura Festival- Malysia – Aug 2019

  • “ My Dear Friends “ at Depo Istanbul. Jan 2019

  • * Faceless Exhibition “ Samusocial Egypt “ Institute Francais Cairo, Aug 2018 

  • * Russian Media Forum 2018

  • * Chrétiens d’Orient in the Institut du Monde Arabe 2017

  • * Delhi Photo Festival 2016

  • * Chennai Photo Biennale 2016

  • • Photojournalists Syndicate Exhibitions &Contest “EGYPT 2010 to 2022”

  • • “Cairo- New Testimonies of an ongoing Revolution “  Exhibition Touring Germany 2012-2013

  • • Phot’Aix”  Festival  & Exhibition “France – Marseille 2013 “

  • Delhi Photo Festival “ Closets Full of Dreams “ India 2015”

  • • Egyptian Faces & Colors “ A Portrait Exhibition “ Cairo Opera House -2012

  • • Women of Egypt “ UN Woman photo Exhibition & Contest “  2012

  • • “Al- Tahrir “ Exhibition –American University Cairo -2011

  • • People The Red Line  Exhibition – Gezira Art Center -2011

  • • Media Development Center Exhibition & Contest -2011

Exhibitions