Cairo Towers, Egypt by Manuel Álvarez Diestro

This excellent work by Manuel Álvarez Diestro, about the wooden towers devoted to pigeon farming in Cairo, is a statement of how this a non-intentional towers can become the identity of this singular city.

As if from territories "post" war, disaster or development, to which we are accustomed many of the scenarios and landscapes of Hollywood science fiction movies, Manuel shows us that reality always surpasses fiction.

Wooden towers view for pigeon farming, Cairo, Egypt. Photograph © Manuel Álvarez Diestro.

Manuel Álvarez Diestro lived in Cairo, Egypt for four years. He decided to conduct a photographic work about the wooden towers devoted to pigeon farming. He walked in some of the most marginal areas of the metropolis including the Zabbaleen settlements (Cairo’s area devoted to informal rubbish collection ). He searched for these enigmatic structures and photograph them form a certain distance and from different angles.

His interest was to make a statement of how trough non-regulation citizens in a non-intentional way could raise these fragile structures and impact Cairo’s skyline.

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Manuel Álvarez Diestro

Manuel Álvarez Diestro. Born in Santander in 1972, is a designer by vocation, although his professional life turns around marketing and communications company. He loves the creativity, the innovation and the "Branding" of the big brands, which closely follows and learning every day.

His passion rides between art and architecture and its way of expression is the photography. He explores the city with his camera looking urban landscapes to revitalize, through the image, the appreciation of the cities in their various developments. We can see these images in his his latest work "New Cairo", "Pyramids," "Parabolic Facades", "Playgrounds of the world", "Souvenirs de Beyrouth", "Dystopic Songdo" and "Amphitheaters".