A GLOBE-TROTTING photographer says his love of snapping was inspired by his grandfather.
Youssef Sida got to show off how his passion plays out at one-day event In Frame in the form of a pop-up shop.
The 25-year-old, who lives in Oxford, displayed an eclectic selection of 70 limited edition prints and postcards at Big Society, in Cowley Road.
Mr Sida said: “It went really well. I suppose I am always a bit pessimistic but I had a good response and good feedback. With the run-up to Christmas it was just a great opportunity to get my work out there.
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“It has kind of motivated me to be more proactive in looking for other opportunities to host exhibitions.”
A bar attendant at Big Society, Mr Sida added: “It is a bit of a balancing act between my full-time work and photography; it is getting slightly difficult.
“I have a project I am interested in doing in the next few years and I am hoping to follow photography further in London.”
Youseff Sida’s picture of Cornmarket Street
Born in Cairo, Mr Sida attended nine different schools around the world before his family settled in Oxford in 2011.
His family were all photography enthusiasts, including Mr Sida’s grandfather, who was a well-respected artist in Egypt.
Mr Sida told how he would admire his grandfather’s precious camera during trips to his grandparents’ home in Egypt. As a teenager he felt honoured, he said, when the camera was given to him after his grandfather had passed away.
This was the single-lens reflex camera that sparked the young photographer’s love affair with film.
The collection exhibited on Saturday was an array of silver gelatin prints and postcards processed and developed in a darkroom by Mr Sida himself.
On using film, as opposed to digital methods, he said: “In the darkroom it’s just me and the chemicals, it’s a physical thing, a different way of seeing.”
The photographs Mr Sida selected to show for In Frame were taken on trips to the French Pyrenees, in Turkey and in the UK.
From top, above, Reflections on the river – the River Isis. Below, Say Waa, meeting people hiking in Turkey on the Lycian Way and, bottom, Band of Brothers – a herd of sheep in the French Pyrenees
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