homemade
Heba Khalifa | Egypt
Homemade is a collaborative portraiture project that Heba began on Facebook, where she found many women with similar stories and struggles to her own. Inviting them into her home studio in Cairo, they created scenes to depict memories, feelings, and traumas relating to their womanhood and Egyptian society.
“Since I was young, I’ve been constantly reminded that being a girl is a liability. Trapped in this body I resented–I wished to lose it, to live without it. For me, storytelling is a way to heal, to free ourselves from the weight of experience.”
