Cairo · Giza · Fayoum
A flowing dress above Giza an hour before the gates open, or out in the dunes with nobody else in the frame. You leave with more than a hundred colour-graded photographs, not a handful.
The experience
A car collects you from your hotel. A dress is waiting in the colour you chose. A photographer directs the whole session, and an assistant does the real work: holding the train, throwing it, keeping it out of the sand between frames.
Thirty to forty-five minutes later it is done, and six to ten days after that more than a hundred colour-graded photographs arrive. You do not need to know how to pose. Nobody does. That is what the direction is for.
The hour nobody else can sell
Three places
45 minutes from Cairo
Open dune country close enough to Cairo to shoot at first light and be back for breakfast. No skyline, no other people, nothing in the frame that dates the photograph, just sand, wind and whichever colour you chose.
An hour before the gates open
The Giza site does not open until eight. From a rooftop there is no gate, so at seven the pyramids are catching the first low sun, the plateau below is still empty, and the only person in your photographs is you.
Three hours from Cairo
The furthest of the three and the strangest-looking. Pale dunes running down to still water, with a horizon that does not look like anywhere else in Egypt. A full day rather than a morning, and the photographs are the reason people take it.
The wardrobe
Every dress in the collection is included in the price. Choosing one does not change what you pay, and there are five traditional gawns for a partner in the frame.
Scroll sideways · twelve dresses, every one photographed on the rooftop
Not only a photoshoot
The same locations and the same photography, pointed at whatever you are marking. Each of these is quoted rather than listed, because what it costs depends on the decoration, the venue and the hour.
Rent & hire
Not everyone needs a photographer. Rent one dress from the same collection of twelve, add accessories, or hire a traditional gawn, delivered to your hotel in Cairo, or collected from us.
A rental dress, packed for hotel delivery
Photograph to come
The accessory collection: nothing has been named yet
Photograph to come
The five gawns: the site's biggest missing asset
Photograph to come
Rental, accessories and men’s attire are quoted rather than priced on this page. We would rather send you a price that is right for the garment, the dates and where you are staying than publish one here that turns out not to apply. You get it in writing before anything is agreed.
Included in every shoot
Collected from your hotel or address and brought back afterwards. Nothing to arrange and nothing to find.
Not a handful of selects. More than a hundred edited frames from one session.
Rented from the collection for the shoot, in the colour you choose. Included in the price. Choosing one does not change what you pay.
One person whose whole job is the fabric: holding the train, throwing it, keeping it out of the sand between frames.
Directed throughout. You do not need to know how to pose. That is the photographer's job and the dress does the rest.
Your edited gallery, within six to ten days of the shoot.
The work
5 of these 6 frames are ours. The rest are marked as waiting for photographs. We would rather show you a labelled gap than a stock photograph you might mistake for our work.
A couples' frame: a dress and a gawn together
Photograph to come
Add if you want it
| Extra | Who it is for |
|---|---|
| Light makeup | Done before the shoot, to whatever level you want. Confirmed with you rather than charged up front. |
| Full makeup | A full application before the shoot. |
| Hairdresser | Worth considering for the dunes and Fayoum, where there is real wind. |
| Two Instagram Reels | Two short vertical edits from the session, cut for Reels and TikTok. |
| An additional dress | A second look in the same session: a second colour, and the frames to go with it. |
| Own or customise a special dress | Keep it. A dress made or customised for you rather than rented for the session. |
| Accessories | Available alongside any shoot. Ask and we will tell you what is in the collection. |
| Traditional attire for men | Five styles of gawn, for a partner in the frame. |
See what each of these costs, or ask us for the ones you want and we will put them in your quote.
Straight answers
We note the colour you choose and have it ready for you. If it is unavailable on the day we contact you before your shoot, rather than promising a specific garment three weeks out and sorting it out on the roof.
There is no checkout here and we will never ask you to type card details into a form on this site. Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and bank transfer are arranged directly with us.
The rooftop closes before the earliest sunset of the year. Afternoon sessions run and the light is good; the sunset itself is not ours to sell.
Not because there is nothing to say, but because we would rather publish real ones with real names attached than a star rating nobody can trace. They go here when they are collected.
So, which colour?
Send the form and you get a reply from a person, about the date, the dress, and the price where it is not published here. Or message us and ask one question.
5 traditional styles for men · 12 dresses · Cairo, Giza and Fayoum
