Raphael Shammaa, fine art photographer, was born in Cairo, Egypt. He arrived in Paris to study art and architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He quickly fell in love with photography, and decided to join the photography school in Vevey, Switzerland. He moved into advertising and fashion photography. In the early 1960s, he decided to live the American dream and moved to New York.
His photobook “The Simplicity of the Moment” was rated one of the 10 best of 2017 by Elizabeth Avedon and is part of the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The International Center of Photography in New York, and The New York Public Library.
