Towell documented life in Mennonite communities for over 10 years over the course of the 1990s
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Fine Print: Self-portrait. Cairo, Egypt, October 14, 2019 Rene Burri Towell documented life in MennoniteSalih Basheer, born in 1995 in Omdurman, is a Sudanese photographer. After finishing high school in Sudan, he moved to Cairo in 2013 and received his Bachelors degree in Geography from Cairo University in 2017. During his studies in Egypt, he started as a self taught photographer, and subsequently studied photojournalism in Denmark. In 2021, Basheer received the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund student grant for his personal project 22 Days in Between.