‘Necropolis of Egypt,’ by Manuel Álvarez Diestro
21/03/2023
A decade after his series of dense urban landscapes juxtaposed with cemeteries of Hong Kong, the photographer Manuel Álvarez Diestro presents images of graveyards in the Egyptian desert. Necropoli of Egypt captures surrealist compositions that reflect parallelisms between the worlds of the living and the dead and the environments in which they coexist. Enveloped in a sense of quietude and stillness, the photographs show similarities in the forms and hierarchies of urban fabrics and funerary grounds