Fadia Ahmad: Beyrouth I Beirut

Fadia Ahmad, a photographer born in 1975, lives and works between Beirut and Paris. She has produced series on Beirut, refugee camps, and on the theme of travel in Africa and Asia.

She has crisscrossed her city daily since 2003 along a route of 10,452 meters, a small sample of Lebanon's 10,452 ^km2 surface area. Neighborhood by neighborhood, house by house, she explores the city like Le Piéton de Paris by Jean-Paul Fargue. “I decided,” she explains, “to follow this route, always the same, so as not to get scattered. It is its constancy that allows me to discover myself, to form a union with this city.”

Capturing street corner merchants and grocers, fishermen, bathers and street artists, the constructions of the past and the future, but also the collapses, Fadia Ahmad restores the image of a complex cohabitation in today's world.

Fadia Ahmad's photographs, which she designs like paintings, reflect Beirut, the partition, the difference, the feelings. They are the fragments of a life as much as the fragments of a city.

Text in French only