Meet the Featured Instagrammers of Egypt: @ahmad_abi

Instagram is the only social network that has managed to create its own true community. The people behind Instagram were smart enough to encourage Instagrammers to challenge each other visually, resulting in Instagram’s eminent growth in a relatively short time. The most well-known Instagrammers of the world have all found clever ways to get instagram followers and bring much more attention to their page. And try their best to keep engaged with all of those followers, however, sometimes they need help from companies similar to kenji.

With their weekend hashtag projects, featured users, suggested users and Instameets, they’ve ensured massive user engagement and lots of alluring shots.

I talked to the 11 Egyptian Instagrammers who have been specially featured and suggested by the official Instagram account to unravel the secrets of their photo successes.

We’ll be featuring them all this week, stay tuned!

Ahmad Abi (@ahmad_abi)

“Instagram head” Thank you @instagram for featuring my #stuffedhair series .. It really means a lot And thanks to everybody your comments and likes are making my day really .. Sorry if i can’t answer all of them..

A photo posted by ahmad_abi (@ahmad_abi) on Apr 4, 2014 at 1:34pm PDT

Abi, a 30 year old with a license to kill, yet he ditched medicine to pursue a career in photography. Famous for his ducks and vibrant pictures, he doesn’t like to call himself a photographer, but he believes he has some ideas. With his unique and colorful style, he defines conceptual and creative photography in Egypt.

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A photo posted by ahmad_abi (@ahmad_abi) on Jan 1, 2014 at 9:09am PST

Abi was the first Egyptian to be featured by Instagram alone. “Actually, I was featured twice; once in the weekly Instagram competition where I participated in the suggested hashtag #WHPtelephone, the second time was after a member of Instagram team saw my #stuffedhair series and sent me an e-mail to say that they want to feature it,” he told us.

Egypt Instagrammer Ahmad El-Abi’s (@ahmad_abi) first #stuffedhair photo was originally a submission for the Weekend Hashtag Project on 2014 resolutions (#WHPresolutions2014). Ahmad stuffed his hair full of yellow rubber ducks he had bought in 2013 but never got round to doing anything with. Instead of creating a project about yellow rubber ducks, Ahmad had given birth to a creative and amusing new photo series on Instagram. Ahmad says many people comment asking how he creates the photos. “The most interesting (and difficult) photo was the ‘bubble head,’ because people couldn’t understand how the bubbles didn’t pop when they touched my hair. So I posted showing a making of the photo, which was really difficult to do. There were so many trial shots until I finally got one I liked.” The reaction to the series from the Instagram community has inspired Ahmad to continue posting, and now Ahmad, who works as a physician in Egypt, is inspired to explore photography. “I really love it when someone says my photos cheer them up because they are colorful and funny.” For more photos and videos of Ahmad’s hair, browse the #stuffedhair hashtag and follow @ahmad_abi on Instagram. Photo by @ahmad_abi

A photo posted by Instagram (@instagram) on Apr 4, 2014 at 6:00am PDT

Abi uses a professional camera, the Nikon D7100, and says that being featured by Instagram was a target for him but he didn’t expect it to happen that soon. “Now, after being featured, I try my best not to change the way I use Instagram because they picked me the way I am, so why shall I feel stressed and change it?!”

Today am 30 .. Guess now am old enough to rule the world in my pajamas ! As usual will spam your timeline today with my birthday’s post!

A photo posted by ahmad_abi (@ahmad_abi) on Jul 7, 2014 at 4:47am PDT

He also managed to win a trip with @PeetaPlanet among other 12 instagrammers from around the globe to visit Dubai. “I was asked to post photos to document the journey through my Instagram account; it was such a fun experience.”

I guess they need to make giant instant sheets to capture “Burj Khalifa” in the frame.. #MyDubaiTrip #throwback #peetaplanet Thanks @ahmed_yaqub for helping A photo posted by ahmad_abi (@ahmad_abi) on Oct 10, 2014 at 10:18am PDT

Abi prefers to call himself an Instagrammer more than a photographer. “Because of Instagram, I got lots of job offers due to the exposure I had after being featured. I also got to know lots of new people from different countries, either online or in person, which is a great addition to my life and work experience.”

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A photo posted by ahmad_abi (@ahmad_abi) on Jun 6, 2014 at 2:38am PDT

He says he would love to see @shewifa and @nohabahr from Egypt to be featured, as well as @amoniak from Tunisia. In the future, Abi would love to do Art Direction professionally and have his own exhibition one day.

WE SAID THIS: Stay tuned for the other featured Instagrammers!