Our Hidden Room
Mohamed Hassan
RM
English
Softcover
126 pages
220 × 262 mm
2025
ISBN 9788410290174
The winner of the Star Photobook Dummy award 2024, marking it as a standout work in visual storytelling and memoir. Blending photography and storytelling, Our Hidden Room is a raw and intimate portrayal of a complex yet loving father-son relationship, filled with both tenderness and pain. A testament to the power of art to bear witness, transform suffering into meaning, and find beauty even in loss.
“This is about my father. This is about me. This is about our hidden room.” Our Hidden Room is an intimate and moving memoir that explores the life of the author’s father—a man shaped by hardship, a deep love for photography, and a lifelong battle with mental illness. Across six chapters, the narrative traces his journey from a difficult childhood in an orphanage in Alexandria to his time in the Egyptian Army, where he discovered photography as both an artistic outlet and a means of solace. Through a deeply personal lens, the author reflects on his father’s resilience, the stigma surrounding mental illness, and the role of art in preserving memory and identity. Photography, once a source of pain for his father, becomes a path of healing for the author.
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About the Artist
Mohammed Hassan (b. 1984, Alexandria, Egypt) is a photographer based in Wales. He moved to Wales in 2007 and holds a BA in Photography from Carmarthen School of Art and an MA in Documentary Photography from the University of South Wales. His work explores themes of identity, place, and belonging.
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About the Publisher
RM is an independent, prestigious publisher focusing primarily on photography and contemporary art, while also maintaining a curated catalogue of Latin American literary classics. RM currently has offices in Spain and Mexico and with more than 500 titles by or about writers and artists of international stature such as: Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Graciela Iturbide, Saul Leiter, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Martin Parr, Julio Cortázar, Daido Moriyama, Luis Barragán, Diego Rivera, Masao Yamamoto, Juan Rulfo, Jeff Wall and Pablo Ortiz Monasterio among others. RM’s work aims to enhance the trends and legacy of visual culture in Latin America, maintaining a line of work of the highest standards which reflects on the history and origins of the visual image.
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