Mostafa Abdel Aty

Professional Summary

Mostafa Abdel Aty is an Egyptian photographer whose artistic career began in 2006 while he was studying architecture. After graduating, he decided to turn his passion into a profession , photographing dance, performances, events, exhibitions, artwork and architecture. He has photographed multiple events organized by cultural institutions, embassies, and major companies including Eunice, The French Institute, Goethe Institute, USAID, AUC, ARCE, US, Austrian, Hungarian and Danish Embassies in Egypt, and others. He's currently the official Photographer at D-CAF Festival since 2013 also he has been the head of photographers at Cairo International Film Festival in 2022 and the official photographer at El Gouna Film Festival 2020 and 2021. And adding to his extensive archive photographing President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi at the presidential palace in 2023.

Alongside his extensive professional career, Mostafa's artistic journey has been equally prolific. He has participated in and curated numerous exhibitions, including the 2011 group exhibition "Ehna Beto' El Tahrir" at the "Sadat" metro station, which showed photos from the Egyptian revolution. He won the Best Press Photo Award at the EU annual photography competition in 2011 and the production grant from Al Mawred Al Thaqafi in 2022.

Abdel Aty began his teaching career in 2010 at Helwan University's Faculty of Fine Arts till he became a trainer at Canon in Egypt from 2020 till Sept 2024.

Abdel Aty's love of animals is a strong influence on his work. In 2019, he founded MEOW TOURS, an initiative aiming to raise awareness of animal rights in Egypt by creating spaces where people can interact with animals to help overcome their zoophobia. Last, but not least, in his first solo exhibition in October 2022, he decided to focus on the issue of animal abuse in Egypt in a different way, through which he seeks to change society's view of local animals and reduce the violence towards them.