Backdropper photographs life in Athens

Photos by Ahmed Hamed, a communication and development masters degree student at Ohio University. Ahmed is a photojournalist from Cairo, Egypt, interested in documenting daily life and historical buildings like Mount Zion Baptist Church which, served as the key gathering place for the Black community of Athens and southeast Ohio from 1905 until the 1990s. Photos captured this spring around Athens, Ohio. You can find more of Ahmed's work in Athens @athens_lens on Instagram.