Ahmed Hayman Photography

Portraits: - Dear Future World Portrait Series

A journey into the thoughts of some of our most influential minds in Arab Cinema sharing their battles with the unknown future. All hoping it can help trigger some social and environmental change. This series aims to present their ideas using photography to help spread the message in an interactive and engaging way. 

  • {quote}Dear Future adults,We messed up, big time!And now it is too late to reverse this daily collapse of the only habitable planet we know, the only one we have. The worst thing that comes to my mind as a mother of 2 is that you my children, you my future adults will be the ones who will pay the price for centuries of greed, selfishness and consumerism.I cannot even begin to imagine a world where you will have to move continents to find water. A world where temperatures on the rise will make many places not livable, A world where oxygen is rare and CO2 is the gas we breathe.I am sorry... we are sorry, we hope you forgive our human oblivion.We hope you know and do better.There is no planet B.{quote}Hend Sabri
  • {quote}We still don’t tolerate our differences, we don’t tolerate one another, We don’t accept that people think differently or love different things, I don’t look like you and you don’t look like me. What a beautiful thing it is, to have an identity. We all have a story, a history, let us appreciate this gift and not turn against each other. War is the great divider. Because of it we wish to change others to be more like us.Because of it we only care about those who look like us. And we forget that diversity brings development. Won’t there comes a day when the war is over and people stop dying because of their differences?... My fears for the future? I have many, this is just one of them.{quote}Carmen Bsaibes.
  • {quote}The biggest threat facing the world is social media, Whoever called it social interaction lied because it divides us insteadof brings us together, It has broken families, It has increased hatred and helped destroy moral conduct.I wish I can fall asleep and wake up to a world without social media.{quote}Sherif Moneer.
  • {quote}Fear is the one thing I fear the most, the one thing that truly terrifies me. I fear loneliness, sickness, pain, being let downBut really that one thing that has been scaring me the most is people, people who have lost their humanity.I fear people who can step on others who can step on those weaker than them, Humanity and mercy means beinghuman with those less powerful than you, be it humans or animals. I fear for the less powerful.{quote}Riham Abdel Ghafour
  • {quote}Why don’t we go back to pure nature? Eating from the trees, going out would be in the wilderness, swimming in non-ending seas. No need to run in to the capital searching for jobs with money, chasing power position and fame. Because what’s the extra money for, if you’re rich enough to own the sky, the sea and pure souls are your friends and horses your companions… No more running.{quote}Jamila Awad.
  • {quote}My biggest fear is child abuse, It scares me to think how the world would become if these kids grow up without seeking help. Kids or Children are the future, need more humans who value humanity and can forgive, humans who want to be a better version of themselves.{quote}Mona Zaki.
  • {quote}Social media, though it’s been capable of having a positive effect in a couple of important situations and in certain fields I generally don’t like it, I think 10% of it is good and the rest is simply a waste of time. Some people, yes, are able to use it wisely but most of us aren’t. I think the way it’s built and the algorithms used are designed to simply hook you. I quit Facebook 2 years ago and literally had withdrawal symptoms when I did that. I don’t like social media, I think it dumbs us, wastes our time, makes us less aware and sometimes more insecure.If I want something in the next couple of years it’s simply to be more present.{quote}Aly Kassem.
  • {quote}I pray that injustice swiftly disappears from the earth.Peacefully or by force.{quote}Khaled El Sawy.
  • {quote}I’m not afraid of tomorrow. of course, there many things that can be improved but that doesn’t mean we should fear themOn the contrary. if we fear them, we won’t find the energy within ourselves to fix them, I have learned that fear will only stopyou from reaching your dreams, fear will only make you inferior, fear will hold you back. My idea is that we stop being afraid. Change yourself and the world around you will change, There are only two emotions in the world from which all other emotions stem.Love and fear and I choose to live in love.{quote}Amina Khalil.
  • {quote}What am I afraid of?I am afraid every time I hear that the global population is more than 7 Billion. I’m afraid everything time I find out we are destroying our very rare planet. I’m afraid that the radical right just keeps winning and winning. I’m afraid of the news, the television, Afraid of oppressed art, Afraid that every time I help someone depressed, I find that I am too weak to help, But in spite of all this fear I laugh, I have faith in us, I trust them, and have a dream for all of us. I have cinema.{quote}Amjad Abu Alala.
  • {quote}What terrifies me? pollution terrifies me.. the loss of fresh clean air terrifies me, the sound of birds chirping brings me joy and if I ever stop hearing that sound and silence takes over, then that day I will know the end is near.{quote}Daneilla Rahme
  • {quote}I feel like people don’t love each other like they used to, there’s this hatred and friction between us. What scares me is that this friction is in your face, there’s this hatred between mankind and trees, between mankind and animals, nature, the sea is being polluted and a large number of waste and plastic is being disposed in it. Mankind has become a savage, a savage even in their feelings for their fellow man that wants to be alone, refuses to share a world that God created for all of us. Please, let’s try to love each other like before{quote}Mohamed Farrag
  • {quote}If we as a global people can’t get relief to the millions stranded by war and starved by famine and choked by greed if we can’t give up the luxury of a plastic bag or the insane desire for a hundred iterations of a bomb…What will we be like when the seas rise and the forests burn, How can I believe we will be kind?I’m afraid that the future is a cycle of human cruelty and the suffering of everything {quote}Rosaline Elbay
  • {quote}My biggest fear is thirst, Imagine a world with no water. Are we aware that we can end there?I followed with great concern what happened in South Africa years ago and no one is far from that.We need to save water now{quote}Marwan Hamed
  • The opportunities lost because of injustice, the talents lost because of injustice, the lives lost, the dreams, the futurebut most importantly our hearts, our love for each other, our empathy and sympathy. Please think not only twice but a hundred time before you treat someone unjustly, life isn’t fair on its own but at least let’s be fair to each other{quote}Passant Shawky
  • {quote}I wonder how the whole humanity with its scientists and re-searchers have still not developed a cure for cancer or diabetes?I guess that the existence of these diseases’ accounts for large profits by the pharmaceutical mafia. But they don’t concern me, the workers in their factories do. If we do develop a cure, all these workers will be out of a job. Homes will be destroyed. I wish we can find a cure as well as jobs for these workers. But it’s clear that that won’t happen any time soon.Salwa Mohamed Ali
  • {quote}Dear future humanity, I hope you’re in a place where you’re still able to listen and be introspective., Don’t lose yourself in this whirlwind of happenings, don’t lose yourself in the world that might have made you cruel, you are all we haveIt’s a fast-paced world out there, I truly hope that in the next decades of extreme technology and distance that’s constantly created between humans, we still find you. Find the humanity of yours.{quote}Tara Emad
  • {quote}Why are we here and what are we supposed to be doing? I’m sure a lot of things other than what we are actually doing، a lot of things we can do for one another, together. For every human being, animal, plant or any living breathing creature with feelings, It’s a shame, we have to be there for each other, not just on paper. I’m afraid the day will come and it will be too late and those who come after us don’t see what we saw or live what we lived. And we say we should have done more. We should have loved more, none of this should have happened.{quote}Ola Roshdy
  • {quote}All my fears are of us misunderstanding each otherAll my fears are of humans not tolerating each other.I wish to provide joy, happiness, glee and freedom, actions more than words, to get as far away as possible from negativity and always, always send out positive energy.{quote}Ahmed Dawood
  • {quote}The drop of water, I’m always afraid I won’t find itAnytime I turn on the tap I only allow just a little water to pass through so I don’t waste any water. I always have a feeling that I won’t find it again. And I always feel that there are children in deserts who can’t find a single drop. That’s why I have to save it for them. It’s immoral to waste even a single drop of water.. Water is life.Amr Arafa
  • {quote}I hate the fact that we always tend to convey a perfect image of ourselves on so-cial media. It really does irritate meespecially that I used to do the same thing and I admit I was wrong. I decided to be as natural as I could, I started to see beauty in my imperfections and I hope we all do the same.{quote}Yasmin Gheith
  • {quote}One of my biggest fears is the self. The way we value our own good over others, we are born as social creatures, born to interact and complete each other, If we don’t, we create an imbalance. So, to me, the self, and superficiality are cause for concern. But still, I’m optimistic.{quote}Hisham Kharma
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