Hekayyatna presents a Photography Exhibition centring Egyptian workers. Available to browse during in-person events or Thursday afternoon drop-in sessions throughout June 2026.

Running across the walls of the EES building for the full month, Behind the Scenes is a group photography exhibition that centres the Egyptian workers whose labour has sustained the archaeology and tourism industries, and whose stories have rarely made it into the archive. Contemporary photographs submitted by Egyptian diaspora photographers through an open call are shown in direct dialogue with historical images from the EES's own photographic archive: excavation photographs, field portraits, and documentary images spanning the society's 140-year history. Curated by Egyptian photographer and anthropologist Halima Ibrahim (University of Oxford), the exhibition highlights the hidden hands of the Egyptology industry.

Behind the Scenes

The Egypt Exploration Society, 3 Doughty Mews, London WC1N 2PG, UK

Holborn

Abbeyhill

Barnton

Belsize Park

Bloomsbury

Bruntsfield & Morningside

Camberwell

Camden Town

Cameron Toll

Canonmills & Broughton

Colinton

Corstorphine

Craiglockhart

Craigmillar & Niddrie

Currie & Balerno

East Dulwich

Easter Road

Fitzrovia

Fountainbridge

Gilmerton

Gorgie

Gospel Oak

Gracemount

Granton

Hampstead

Haymarket & Dalry

Highgate

Holyrood Park

Inverleith

Kentish Town

Kilburn

King's Cross

Kirkliston

Leith

Leytonstone

Liberton

Little France

Marchmont & Meadows

Muirhouse

Murrayfield

Musselburgh

New Town

Northern Quarter

Northfield & Piershill

Old Town

Oxgangs

Peckham

Portobello

Primrose Hill

Queen's Crescent

Regent's Park

Shandon

Slateford

Somers Town

South Queensferry

Southside

Stenhouse

Stockbridge

Stoke Newington

Swiss Cottage

The Grange

The Gyle

Tollcross

Trinity

West End & Dean Village

Wester Hailes

West Hampstead

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