A first glimpse of Sherif Sonbol gives you the impression that he has time for everything, time on his hands. He does not. In spite of his tall person and his habit of bending slightly in the direction of those at hand and looking relaxed, his time is always stretched far beyond most peoples' capacity to keep up with it. His exhibition of photographs cover the last few years productions of the Cairo Opera House as well as those of distinguished visitors like the Bolshoi, the Paris Opera, Garnier or Bastille, Ballet de Lyon, all of whose productions gave scope for his balletic eye. Sonbol is none too pleased about the state in which opera photographs must be taken.
Nobody bothers about light in the opera.
So pictures are difficult. Since all concerned with ballet are also concerned with light he can get much better performance memorials of dance than song.