John McGrane Photography

John McGrane Photography Professional photographer, specialising in family, portrait, lifestyle and street photography.

Manshiyat Nasser, 2026. 🐦
08/05/2026

Manshiyat Nasser, 2026.




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This book begins with an absence.Working from a publication on King Farouk I, I systematically removed him from the fram...
30/04/2026

This book begins with an absence.
Working from a publication on King Farouk I, I systematically removed him from the frame—cutting around his figure, erasing his presence, and leaving behind the spaces he once occupied. What remains are fragments: gestures, fabrics, architecture, crowds, glances. A world that existed in orbit around power, now reassembled without its centre.
The grids of small images function as both archive and disruption. Each square isolates a detail that would otherwise be overlooked—a hand, a shadow, a texture—shifting attention away from authority and toward the peripheral. In doing so, the work mirrors the historical moment of Farouk’s overthrow in 1952, when a singular figure was displaced and the illusion of permanence collapsed.
The act of cutting is both destructive and generative. It removes, but it also reveals. By refusing the image of the monarch, the project asks what history looks like when its focal point is gone. Who remains visible? What narratives persist? And how does power continue to echo in the margins?
This is not a portrait of a king, but of everything around him.




Manshiyat Nasser, 2026.
27/03/2026

Manshiyat Nasser, 2026.




Pigeon towers offer a calm, almost meditative space for a man to retreat from dust and the chaos at street level, be alo...
20/03/2026

Pigeon towers offer a calm, almost meditative space for a man to retreat from dust and the chaos at street level, be alone with thoughts and indulge in his passion.




An employee of one of Manshiyat Nasser’s many recycling workshops, processing and bagging recyclable materials to be sol...
13/03/2026

An employee of one of Manshiyat Nasser’s many recycling workshops, processing and bagging recyclable materials to be sold on.




A man alone on his pigeon tower, looking up to the skies. Is he calling to his pigeons or conversing with god? The two a...
06/03/2026

A man alone on his pigeon tower, looking up to the skies. Is he calling to his pigeons or conversing with god? The two acts symbolically entwined.




Abanoub, 19, recently inherited his own apartment in his family’s building in Manshiyat Nasser, and he spends all of his...
27/02/2026

Abanoub, 19, recently inherited his own apartment in his family’s building in Manshiyat Nasser, and he spends all of his available time and resources fitting it out.

At the time when this photo was taken, there was no front door, no windows, no working bathroom or kitchen, and no bed. It was still an uninhabitable shell. He had however made a comfortable home for his pigeons; pride of place in the living room.

The significance of this space to Abanoub was abundantly clear, as it moves him to the next stage of adulthood and ready for marriage when the time comes, but also affords him the space to be alone with his thoughts, his prayers and his pigeons.




“Garbage City” at street level, where the dust and pollution in the air creates a suffocating environment. Families work...
21/02/2026

“Garbage City” at street level, where the dust and pollution in the air creates a suffocating environment. Families work together, sorting and processing the city’s waste before retreating to the calm of their homes and the rooftops at the end of the day.




As part of my on-going post graduate research, I continue to explore how documentary photography can engage with complex...
12/02/2026

As part of my on-going post graduate research, I continue to explore how documentary photography can engage with complexity while preserving dignity.




performance for refugee children in transit.Commissioned documentary assignment for UNHCR.
12/02/2026

performance for refugee children in transit.

Commissioned documentary assignment for UNHCR.




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