A FRENCH-born Neuroscientists is exhibiting his own captivating African photography at a hospital.

Pierre Petitet, who works at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, has displayed his pictures of Africa's Nubian people in its Link Gallery.

Mr Petitet made his study of the Egyptian ethnic group in 2015 to help fundraise for new schools.

Of his own work he said: "When I think about the Nubians, it is their eyes that I can picture the most: these two deep black pearls that seem to be looking straight at your soul.

"This series of portraits is a tribute to the beauty and the joy of living of the people I met in the schools, houses and streets of Aswan and Karkar in the south of Egypt.

"Adult mischief echoes with childish solemnity to invite the viewer to search for a common nature across these people."

About 100,000 Nubians lost their homes in the 1960s when Egyptian president Nasser launched the construction of the High Dam of Aswan.

The government promised to build new villages to rehome the Nubian families, but most of the projects never materialised.

The settlement of Karkar, begun in the early 2000s, is one of the exceptions, but a lot of work still has to be done.

Mr Petitet and a fundraising team began a project to support new schools there in 2015, as part of which he created this series of portraits.