Beirut, Lebanon, 2018-2019. A city written over itself. Ottoman houses stand in the shadow of glass towers, Roman stones lie beneath rebuilt streets, and facades still scarred by the civil war face construction sites that never stop. Achrafieh, Gemmayzeh, Mar Mikhael, Downtown, Hamra, Raouche, the Corniche, Ouzai: from one neighbourhood to the next, from private gardens to tangled alleys, Beirut is a city of extremes, where wealth and poverty, faith and noise, ruin and renewal live side by side. These images were taken while I lived there, just before the city was shaken once again.
