I'm happy, I Sherif Sonbol, to be one of your tribe, Greek Argus the thousand-eyed. Sherif Sonbol began as a photographer with Al-Ahram Weekly almost before The Weekly was born, and he is still with it. He does change. His eyes rove the waves of change that roll across the newspaper scene. He's a quiet person.
Most photographers are.
They are so busy looking they have no time for anything else. He's unnerving, kindly and lovable, but has a sharp tongue with an aspic taste for gossip. But in the end everything slides back under the eyelids and he's one with the apparatus he is usually clutching as if it is part of a limb that might drop off if he didn't hang on. He left Cairo University with an insurance underwriter's degree which satisfied him until the day on which he found that light moves objects. Rocks can dance under its primeval power and you need the eyes of Argus to cope with it.