Aish

“Street documentary photograph from a moving car, 35mm lens, morning haze. A chaotic street in Sayeda Zeinab, Cairo: white-and-blue minibuses, a donkey cart, old minarets in the dusty distance. A 17-year-old Egyptian bread delivery boy, skinny, a faded red T-shirt and flip-flops, rides a rusty black bicycle one-handed through the traffic while balancing on his head a huge wooden tray stacked with dozens of round baladi loaves, his other hand steadying it, calm and focused. Palette: dust gold, bread brown, minibus white and blue, faded red. Motion blur on the traffic, sharp on him, real dust and grain. No readable text, no logos.

“He weaves between a minibus and a donkey cart, ducks under a low awning without touching the tray, rings his bell and grins at the camera. Camera tracks alongside from the car window. Sound: car horns, a minibus tout shouting, a bicycle bell.