Basim Magdy came to photography through his interest in film. He uses traditional analogue and Polaroid cameras which he likes to reassemble and and experiment with, pushing their the apparatus past what it was traditionally designed to do. Magdy creates elusive images of empty landscapes, monuments that allude to the human need to leave a mark on this earth and of people who seem eerily out of place in their environment. In works like Someone Tried to Lock up Time (2018) and Apology to a Love Story that crashed into a Whale (2016) a series of images and poetic texts make ambiguos references to the way in which history is being written, and perhaps to the role that photography plays in the construction of these perceived "truths" about the world. In addition to an acclaimed international exhibition activity, Magdy makes it a point to make many of his works, notably his films available online. While digital modes of displaying art has gained importance in recent times, he emphazises its potential for democrazising access to art.