BEIRUT: “On Photography in Lebanon: Stories and Essays” is not emblazoned with an “iconic” Lebanese photo. The book’s burgundy-purple cover is sprinkled with...
BEIRUT: Acclaimed photographer Josef Koudelka was in Lebanon recently for the opening of his two-part show at Dar El-Nimer, “The Wall-Beirut.” He...
BEIRUT: “For me, every day is a present, and every day is one [day] less,” 80-year-old Josef Koudelka said. “And you should live it like the...
ARLES, France/BEIRUT: Among the buzz of photographers, publishers and members of the public gathered around tables full of photobooks, stood Nadim Asfar.The...
ARLES, France: “The first time people see me, before they know me, they think I’m black,” said a teenage Safa Batniji, who was born and raised in the U.S. to...
ARLES, France: “You, how old?” a man in a mustard-colored shirt asks. “Thirty-three,” a woman replies. “She looks 27 or 28. Young ladies will get older faster...
BEIRUT: In a Beirut cafe, Italian artist and graphic novelist Stefano Ricci smiled as images of children painting flicked across a computer screen. The day...
BEIRUT: Notice something missing from Lebanon’s 2018 cultural calendar? Those interested in photography will already have their hands up to answer that...
BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon: Coughing, 10-year-old Mohammad Ahmad al-Ahmad stood in a cramped, makeshift medical clinic as Dr. Ali Rislan examined him. The boy,...
BEIRUT: A 20-year anniversary can fly under the radar as an organization gets on with the job. That appears to be the case for the Arab Image Foundation,...
BEIRUT: For the Beirut Center of Photography team, photos are a job, a passion and a mission. “Our slogan is to put Beirut on the map of world...
BEIRUT: “Allan Sekula – Photography at Work,” now up at the Beirut Art Center, is one of the standout photography exhibitions in Lebanon this year. Curated by...
BEIRUT: “One must invent a game. Find an enigma,” Lebanese filmmaker, artist and journalist Jocelyne Saab writes in the notes to her exhibition...
BEIRUT: “Fouad was a collector who developed a passion, ... even an obsession, for photography,” recalled Yasmine Chemali. The head of collections...
Editor’s note: This is the second of two features that take up some of the issues around the conservation of the photographic patrimony in the Middle...
Editor’s note: This is the first of two features that take up some of the issues around the conservation of the photographic patrimony in the Middle...
BEIRUT: Images from Lebanon and Switzerland have come together at Hamra’s Masrah al-Madina this week, with the inauguration of a photo exhibition on the...
BEIRUT: Winning a major photography competition in your home country when you’re still at photography school is a considerable achievement. There are...
BEIRUT: The Sursock Museum is currently hosting “The Law of Existence,” Maha Maamoun’s first solo exhibition in Beirut. The space showcases two of the...
BEIRUT: Gilbert Hage doesn’t like to give interviews. The photographer wants to hear people’s raw responses to his work, without pre-empting...
GHAZZEH / HAWSH AL-HARIMEH, Lebanon: In a fenced-off patch of gravel at a refugee settlement in the West Bekaa, children sang and played in front of a cluster...
BEIRUT: “Photography cannot change the world,” Marc Riboud reminds us, “but it can show the world when it changes.” This observation...
BEIRUT: Photomed Liban, the annual photography festival opens Wednesday in the Lebanese capital, featuring 20 local and international photographers across...
PERPIGNAN, France: International photojournalists, editors and other industry professionals converged on the southern city of Perpignan this past week for the...