I was taken by an unexpected passion for photography three years ago, my interest grew for architecture; that created by Man, the other drawn through lines and light. Living in Beirut raises challenges and suspicions. Reassuring the inhabitant that I am neither a terrorist nor a spy, meaning no harm, is a constant concern. I have to act efficiently and manage with what is present on sight by trying, when possible, to incorporate the human presence in my pictures. This «duel» and the complicity between Man and architecture is interesting because a human being in a picture brings at the same time warmth and scale . This gives, in its turn, an abstract dimension to Man.
My aim in photography is to get as close as I can to abstraction. To draw with my camera the way we draw with a brush; seeing objects the way I want them to appear and not the way they actually are.
I try to recompose, restructure what I see; my eye constructs reality by transforming it. I grew up with the privilege of being able to read auction catalogues and books on modern and contemporary art. I was never really interested in photography until one day I found myself signed up for a photography class without my prior knowledge. This is when I realised that my eye had learnt to compose. The technique I learned was important but the work of composition came instinctively. I always try to create with what lies before my eyes. Each vision becomes an artistic challenge. The eye listens. It reconstructs what it sees and a new world can be born at every blink of the eye.
Serge Najjar
FESTIVAL
Photomed 2014
Until June 15th, 2014
83110 Sanary-sur-Mer
France
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