Throughout the year leading up to the next issue of the PhotoCairo festival in depth research and a series of workshops will explore the theme of "visibility" and develop diverse contributions to the festival. Through the series of multi-part workshops the festival opens up to a wider circle of young artists, image makers and related practitioners and  involves them in developing contributions to the festival. Furthermore the preliminary phase aims to provide a more sustainable circulation of relevant content in preparation and during the festival and to make research material including a series of video conversations on the topic accessible to a wider public through a website as well as in the library section of the actual festival.