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Exhibiting this year at Photomed as part of his last series called I hated you already because of the lies I had told you, the Lebanese photographer Gilbert Hage is…
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Beirut is not—or rather is no longer—a beautiful city. Not, at least, in the way one might say that Paris or Rome are beautiful. Even people fascinated by the Lebanese…
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Ulysses once took a long trip through the Mediterranean. From 2010 to 2014, Nick Hannes followed in his wake. Instead of sirens, he only met silicone-stuffed bimbos with fake eyelashes…
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A film creates its own atmosphere; it provokes visceral sensations. This is eminently true of Danielle Arbid’s films, where so much is at stake in each glance or touch. During…
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This work was started in 2014. The refugee problem had not yet reached the magnitude it has since reached in Europe. It was not yet all over the news at…
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There are those days when driving is vital to me. It’s almost a liberation. Time to drive around to the roundabout, to the bridge, windows open, arms dangling, before you…
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A great city – especially when it sprawls without real limit, like Beirut – can quickly dazzle us with the height of its towers, the noise of its avenues, the…
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Paradoxically, the contemporary era, where self-image plays such an important role, has only produced a handful of masters of portraiture. Richard Dumas is one of them.…