Paul Geday

Paul Ayoub-Geday (Arabic: بالعيب جدي) is an Egyptian publisher, photographer, filmmaker and visual artist. He has worked as light and set designer, photo editor, creative director, journalist, publisher and curator. Geday holds a master's degree in mass communication from the American University in Cairo where he studied from 1987 to 1989. Also, he studied at the London Film School from 1991 to 1993 . Geday is an active member of the Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) as member of the board of trustees since January 2005 (see next section). Also, he is a consultant and a trainer in the conception of magazine and newspaper at the Media Development Program (MDP) where he started working in August 2010. He has been a consultant and a trainer too at the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) since March 2010 till now. Also, Geday has worked at Tanmeya, a company for Financial Services Industry, as film director and consultant from July till August 2010. Geday worked on the board of trustees of the Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) as Secretary. It is a non-profit independent art initiative founded in 2004 in Egypt. It provides educational programs in art and media through workshops and courses at the CIC PhotoSchool. The initiative's mission is to provide art practices that "reflect and respond to the present". Geday conceived, published and art directed Almanac Egypt in 2001. It is a yearly publication that has information about a wide variety of aspects about Egypt that he co-published with Max Rodenbeck. It includes articles, graphs and lists. The book has six chapters: industry, land, culture, society, politics, and economy. Each chapter contains articles written by professional journalists and researchers in Egypt. For instance, Almanac Egypt 2002–2003 contains 125 articles, 244 pictures, 113 graphs, tables, and maps. Geday participated in The Self-portrait Video Workshop by Corinne van Egeraat produced by ZINdoc Company in 2011. Seventeen short autobiographical movies were produced by Egyptian artists. It was organized by the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands supported the project. The Egyptian premiere of the movies was held at the French Cultural Centre in Cairo at "Rencontres de l'Image 2012" Festival from 2 to 9 April 2012. Geday made two movies during the workshop: I Don't Know and Bye Bye. The latter was the only film to have an international premiere in Berlin.