This year The Sony Gallery for Photography witnessed a major event, its relocation to the space formerly known as Ewart Gallery.

October 2004 - November 2004: “Musalsalat! Prime-Time Ramadan” by Stephanie Keith
“Musalsalat! Prime-Time Ramadan” was the first show inaugurated at the New Sony Gallery. The exhibit was a selection of photographs taken by Stephanie Keith, an award-winning documentary and news photographer based in New York City, on assignment for Saudi Aramco World. The color pictures on display were production scenes taken during the shooting of previous year’s Ramadan serials. They included many well-known Egyptian stars like Lucy, Leila Elwi, Farouq El Fishawy and Nour El Sherif.

November 2004 - December 2004: “Made in Egypt: The Traditional Crafts of Cairo” by Monda Rafla
After an absence of twenty-five years, Monda Rafla, an American-Egyptian photographer from California, returned to Egypt to photograph medieval Cairo using her camera to capture the rich cultural heritage that exists among the residents and artisans of the area. The black and white of her show “Made in Egypt: The Traditional Crafts of Cairo” captured the shapes, the actions, and the sounds of the few remaining artisans who are still in the workshops they have occupied for years, and where they continue to use the same methods and tools passed on to them through the generations.

February 2005 - March 2005: “Nubia Before the Flood” by Abdel Fattah Eid
A major event this year was “Nubia Before the Flood.” organized by The Rare Books and Special Collections Library and the Sony Gallery for Photography and inaugurated by David Arnold, President of The American University in Cairo. The discovery of a significant number of photos (around 720 photos concurrently in RBSC and the SRC of AUC) of Nubia and Nubians prompted this exhibition. The black and white photographs were taken in the period before l965 by Abdel Fattah Eid, as part of a project to document Nubian culture prior to the Lake Nasser inundation. These have been digitized by the Social Research Center and the collection will eventually be given to RBSC.

March 2005 - April 2005: “John Feeney Retrospective: 40 Years of Photographing Egypt” by John Feeney
In 1963, John Feeney, a New Zealand-born filmmaker, photographer, and writer, arrived in Egypt intending to stay for one year and instead stayed for forty. His exhibition “John Feeney Retrospective: 40 Years of Photographing Egypt” brought together many of his now rare color photographs of Egypt, taken over the past forty years. A captivating depiction of Egypt’s epic grandeur, the 56 color photographs included historic pictures of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s funeral cortege leaving Qasr al-Nil Bridge and of the last Nile flood to come to Egypt, as well as aspects of the country rarely dealt with previously—the unique domes of Cairo, the extraordinary multicolored pavilions of the Tentmakers’ Street, the gathering of jasmine blossoms in the Nile Delta, the shadow puppet plays of Cairo’s street theater, as well as the mosques, mausoleums, and hammams of the Islamic city.

June 2005: “Lehnert & Landrock Centennial”
To end the year, The Sony Gallery celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the Lehnert & Landrock bookstore by featuring the world renowned photographs of Rudolf Lehnert and Ernst Landrock. Their work has shaped our visual sense of the Middle East and North Africa from the earliest years of the 20th Century through the nineteen thirties. This exhibition, “Lehnert & Landrock Centennial”, was inaugurated by H.E. Charles Edouard Held, Ambassador of Switzerland. The prints on exhibit were the happy result of the discovery in 1982 in Cairo of Lehnert's original glass plates by Dr. Edouard Lambelet, Landrock's grandson-in-law and the present owner of the Cairo Lehnert & Landrock bookstore and publishing house. In contrast to earlier exhibits of Lehnert & Landrock at the Sony Gallery, this Retrospective of their work was the most comprehensive exhibit to date.