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Beit Dina
Desert Residency
I spent four weeks in residence at Beit Dina during December 2025. A farm-turned-boutique-villa on the edge of Siwa Oasis, surrounded by date palms, olive groves and the extraordinary stillness of the Sahara. A property with an emerging identity, asking for the visual and written language that could carry it.
The residency was a full creative production : architectural, intrior design and landscape photography, videography and copywriting. Producing visual and written content for the property's website, social channels, and a series of inter-collaborative experiences within the Siwa hospitality scene. I also documented the surrounding farmland, the salt flats, the nearby mountains, and the town itself, building a wider visual world that places the property within the landscape it belongs to.
Working in residence, living inside the house for four weeks alongside the permanent house keepers, as a holistic artistic immersion. Not only to see the beautiful facade, but to feel the energy of the house, that has been meticulously designed by the late owner, Dina, herself. Beit Dina in arabic translates to ‘House of Dina’, and it truly is a house that feels like the expression of her soul. You feel her in every corner. Every artistic detail.
I believe, the only way to photograph a place honestly, is to feel it first. Not just capturing space, but waiting patiently for it to reveal itself.