Any Egyptian Photojournalists?

It would be nice if some of the young emerging local (ie living in Egypt) photojournalists who work for indigenous newspapers were invited to participate with their work...instead of relying on foreigners' work.

World News & recent uprisings in the middle east

I agree with the above poster that emerging local photographers are best placed to capture images of their own countries undergoing revolutionary changes. They know the area (and probably the politics) a lot better than photographers from the UK national newspapers etc.

Of course newspapers retain editorial control and can ascertain whether or not the photos sent electronically to them show too much of one side of the story or not.

Times have changed since the days of the well known war photographers and photojournalists of the west went all over the globe to cover stories. Local photographers now have better equipment than the old days and the web makes it possible to upload images in seconds although when governments shut down the Internet this is made more difficult.

To be fair...

... Laura El-Tantawy is an Egyptian photographer, who has spent the last five years documenting her home country. Okay, she might be living in the UK, but looking at her body of work over these past five years, she has an unique view of these events, and her participation in this event should be very interesting.

No disagreement, but...

Olivier,

Ms El-Tantawi may well have a unique view of the Cairo revolution, which will certainly be useful on the online seminar. The point I'm trying to make is that the Egyptian "grunts" (for lack of better word)...the young local photojournalists who work for a pittance in local newspapers ought to be given a chance to show their work too...they're part of the very revolution they have covered.

Michael Robinson Chavez of the LAT has spearheaded an effort to bring these photojournalists' work to Perpignan in summer. I hope he succeeds. That's the kind of support I was hoping for.