Honorable Mention / 2015 / Press / General News

An Evening In Cairo, Egypt

  • Photographer
    Raquel Finol, United States

Making a tourist city tour of Cairo I could not contain the urge to
take this picture, the driver stopped the vehicle and I could take
some images in seconds.
This image reflects a normal afternoon in Cairo but actually it live
a tense calm for the political situation in which they were living.
This image were few days before for revocation of President Morsi
on June 3, 2013, when thousands of protesters would meet in
Liberation Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, to demand the
immediate resignation of President Morsi due to discomfort
economic and social.
I was a common tourist. I was learning the ancient culture but
ignorance of the language and the intervention of an excellent
attention to tourism experts from Cairo, made my stay totally
quiet and out of danger of the that was living and distress we lived
without knowing...
The image was taken from inside the vehicle on May 29, 2013
Vespers of the coup in Egypt.

She born in Maracaibo, Venezuela in November 1963 and she graduate in La Universidad del Zulia (L.U.Z.) as an architect in April 1989.
Raquel Finol exercised her profession during the 1990-2006 period, in the government of the Zulia state, in the department of Public Works of the state, where she worked as an works project inspector.
She included in her job her art through paintings, sculptures and logos that which garnered her many recognitions to her abilities in design.
Her art has recreated the vista of those who admire for her talent to express happiness, equilibrium, serenity and peace that she wishes to transmit to every human being.
Having won different types of awards and recognitions, Raquel emigrated to The United States in 2006, due to political problems in her country and interrupts her development of one of her passions: the photography.
In 2014 takes the decision to publicize their art.
Her passion to the art is innate and recognized for her evocative way of living, filled with beautiful contrasts, colors and emotions. Each work of art reflects a reality to be conveyed and share with a society immersed in a negative world that has forgotten the existence of a simplicity that does not damage and transmits positivism ...
Her humble contact with the people allowed her to create without frontiers, for which she decides in june 2014 introduce her work and participate for the first time in a photography contests.