Rana El Nemr is a co-founder of the independent art space, the Contemporary Image Collective(CIC). Started in 2004, the Collective provides a wide variety of art and media services as a means to develop visual culture and artistic practice, engagement, and discourse. The CIC exists as a multi-purpose organization, offering educational workshops, residency opportunities, exhibition spaces, and access to a variety of other resources for interested individuals.
CIC’s educational scope expanded in 2010 to include the CIC PhotoSchool, a space that offers strategic photography and videography curricula with artistic, practical, theoretical, and career based options. By developing an increasingly diverse educational program, the CIC can serve a wide range of interested students, from the casual photographer, to the aspiring photojournalist.
In addition to a multi-media library, the CIC also offers a studio space with professional lighting equipment, a black and white darkroom, and a brand new digital lab for professional printing and scanning facilities. By offering these rare resources CIC has become instrumental in developing the artistic and cultural sphere in Egypt.