Love Letters to Sudan - Immersive Exhibition
The Event
Join us for an intimate exhibition and book launch that invites you into an exclusive body of work shaped over more than a decade. Through photography and narrative, it traces a country often spoken about, but rarely seen with this kind of closeness.
Throughout the evening, you are invited to pause, reflect, and engage with your own sense of memory. The people, places, and moments that have left a mark on you.
A short live conversation will explore how stories shape the way we see the world and each other, followed by a chance to meet the author, experience the work up close, and take part in a limited book release.
The Book
“SUDAN IS ONE OF THE OLDEST CIVILIZATIONS ON EARTH. IT IS ALSO ONE OF THE LEAST UNDERSTOOD.”
Across more than 200 photographs, Love Letters to Sudan documents a country of extraordinary depth and geographical range. What does one discover here? The pyramids of Meroë rising from the Saharan plain. The confluence of the Blue and White Nile at Khartoum, where two of the world's great rivers meet in slow, ancient union. The highlands of Darfur, one of Africas oldest volcanoes, cloaked in mist above the Sahel. The coral shores of the Red Sea. The sacred granite peaks of the eastern Beja. The faces and ceremonies of a nation comprising hundreds of distinct ethnic groups and one of the most genetically diverse human populations on the planet.
Sudan is home to more pyramids than anywhere else on earth. For two thousand years the Kushite Empire raised them here, its pharaohs ruling Egypt, its queens driving Rome back into the desert and burying the head of Augustus Caesar beneath their feet. This is that land.
Abir Ibrahim began this work in 2014. After a decade of travel across all regions of Sudan, Love Letters to Sudan stands as a landmark visual document of a country too often reduced, and rarely seen in its full complexity.
In Conversation
A conversation between H.E. Ali Ibn Abi Talib Abdelrahman Mahmoud Elgindi and Abir Ibrahim.
Bringing together decades of diplomatic experience and a body of work rooted in storytelling, this exchange reflects on how places are represented, remembered, and understood.
H.E. Ali Ibn Abi Talib Abdelrahman Mahmoud Elgindi is a retired career diplomat with over three decades of experience in human rights and multilateral diplomacy, including serving as Sudan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva. His work spans international cooperation, trade, and partnerships, with senior roles at the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah.
Abir Ibrahim is a Sudanese American writer and development economist based in Geneva. Her work sits at the intersection of history, policy, and storytelling, with a focus on reframing how Africa is seen and understood. Through research, photography, and public engagement, she explores questions of memory, identity, and representation across the continent and its global diaspora. www.abiribrahim.com