Egyptian digital artist and university student Ahmed Emad Eldin has been selected as one of the best and most creative 25 visual artists in the world who are under the age of 25 by Adobe in their "25 Under 25" Photoshop competition.
Adobe launched the competition in January in celebration of Photoshop's 25th anniversary as the company searched the globe for young talent that can represent the future of Photoshop and the future of digital art.
"We’re looking for the most innovative, forward-looking work out there that will show the world what the next generation of Photoshop artists is made of," senior product manager for Digital Imaging solutions at Adobe Lex van den Berghe had announced .
It was important for Photoshop that the participants be chosen from all parts of the world so that their art "will represent their diverse cultures, life experiences, points of view and dreams." Each of the 25 selected artists was asked to create an original piece of art to honor Photoshop's 25-year milestone, in addition to each staging a two-week takeover of Photoshop's new Instagram account over the course of a year.
Eldin's creation was a stunning digital art piece showing 25 pyramids that represent the 25 years of Photoshop and a person who appears to be flying among the pyramids, Eldin said on his Facebook account that the flying person represents him. Eldin has just recently completed his two-week takeover of Photoshop's Instagram account as he shared his work and his story with the world.
This, however, is not the first time the young artist's work has received worldwide recognition. In late 2014, one of his designs became world-famous when it was chosen to be the cover for acclaimed English rock band Pink Floyd's latest album "The Endless River," their first one in 20 years.
“A creative agency working for Pink Floyd contacted me after checking my artwork through the Internet as my work has appeared in online galleries on behance.net,” Eldin told The Independent in September 2014.
The beautiful cover art for the album shows a man rowing a small boat in what appears to be a river or lake of clouds heading towards emerging sun rays. “When we saw Ahmed’s image it had an instant Floydian resonance. It’s enigmatic and open to interpretation, and is the cover that works so well for The Endless River,” Aubrey Powell, from the Hipgnosis design studio who discovered Eldin's work, told The Independent.
“Thinking about life and nature and what is beyond the world of charming factors we have never seen is enough to create millions of different amazing feelings,” Eldin said in the interview explaining the inspiration behind the artwork.
The talented 18-year-old, who is currently studying to be a pharmacist in Cairo, taught himself digital design as he started exploring the world of visual art at the age of 13, using the Internet as both his information source and sharing platform. The young artist shares his work on Behance and Instagram .
“First, I draw a sketch for what is in my mind, then I start to simulate the sketch and the idea with real images, and that’s called photo manipulation,” Eldin told The Independent in September.
The young Egyptian artist definitely seems to have a bright future ahead of him and many successes yet to come.