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Here, the Doors Don’t Know Me

An ongoing collaborative web project by Egyptian photographer Mohamed Mahdy exploring the effects of sea level rise in the community of Al Max, a fishing village in Alexandria. In 2020 the Egyptian government began to evict its inhabitants.

In combination with his own photos and found images, Mahdy encouraged the residents to write “last letter” about the homes they were losing - a way to immortalize the memories of a disappearing community.

“we used to live in peace the foreigner was living here because whenever someone comes here he is stuck that's why we call our neighborhood Al Max and this came from "Al Mkoos" and it means staying.”