press kit - Photomed Liban

2016
Photo
med
from january 20 till february 10
press kit
festival of mediterranean photography
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EDITORIAL
The Mediterranean is an Internal Landscape
By Guillaume de Sardes
Before it is ever recalled as landscapes, towns, scents or flavours, the Mediterranean first etches itself onto our memory as a form of light. At high
noon, this light achieves a blinding intensity. But at both sunrise and sunset
there are but shades – becoming shades of grey for Édouard Boubat, whose
works are shown here in the form of a major retrospective.
Not that the bright and the vivid necessarily induce the recreation of an
idyllic world. Although the brilliant sunshine reveals the full splendour of
the riches of a garden of the world, the silhouettes of passionate youth, it
also casts a harsh light on areas of misery and dereliction. No conveniently
picturesque mists here, to conceal the refugees of war flung ashore in their
precarious boats, nor the temples and porticos reduced to piles of rubble,
having resisted two millennia of tempest and war…The Mediterranean is
also a tragic world.
In this land of Ulysses, photography has not always avoided the siren call of
a perhaps rather facile aesthetic, a somewhat overblown pathos. The artists
gathered together for this edition of PhotoMed, many of whom are quite
young, do not however fall prey to such temptations. Whether committed
“street photographers” or not, their interest in daily life is what stands out.
Many of them aim to document ways of life, transformations in the urban
environment, working conditions, ritual practices, and so on. This documentary approach often goes hand-in-hand with a radical intent within the work:
Antoine D’Agata’s photographs being a good example of this. In plucking
these wavering images from out of the darkness, D’Agata tells not only his
own story but that of the world. He navigates the dividing line between the
social and the personal.
Can it be mere coincidence that so many of his peers also share, in their
own way, his fascination with rifts and boundaries? From the borderline case
of Gibraltar, whose compact few hectares contain all the contradictions of
two worlds, to the elusive horizon pursued by the photographic road movie,
at every level, the artists exhibited here seem less interested in crossing,
surmounting or transgressing, but rather in exploring. It is reminiscent of
Louidgi Beltrame’s video about the architectural projects of Oscar Niemeyer
and Le Corbusier… “The mind which moves like a salamander through the
fiery world” (Ernst Jünger) is projected into a zone, the ultimate locus of the
encounter with the unknown. Vague, fluid, the zone recalls the leap from
the highest rock, as elegant and free as that of the divers of Dalieh. What
is the photographic act but this dive?
editorial
the exhibitions
Antoine D'Agata, Home Town
Toni Catany, Shadow Chronicles
Collection Gabino Diego, Women and Children First
Alvaro Sánchez-Montanés, Unprepared and unsorted
Luis Vioque, An Imaginary Journey
Angelo Antolino, Women of the Camorra
Alessandro Puccinelli, I Have Crossed the 7 Seas
Randa Mirza, Beirutopia
Karim Sakr, Beirut Street Photography
Edouard Boubat, Mediterraneo
Elsie Haddad, Bogota
Emma Grosbois, Those Who Are Watching Us
Arno Brignon, Free doors to Spain: Gibraltar
Invitation to Lebanese Galleries
Mediterranean Expressions: From Poetry to Politics
the rendez-vous of Photomed
Photo
med
2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS
from january 20 till february 10
the exhibitions
Agenda of exhibitions
Photography workshops
Portfolio reviews
Photography contest
partners and sponsors
contacts
festival de la photographie méditerranéenne
www.photomedliban.com
ANTOINE D'AGATA
Home Town
It was in his home town of Marseille, where he was born in 1961, that Antoine
D’Agata once again took up photography after a four-year hiatus. This was in the
late 1990s.
A number of pictures he took around this time were published in the collection
Home Town. The photographs are in black and white. They examine meandering
and straying, sex and drugs – the crossing of boundaries. They trace the path of
good conduct and the patterns mapped out by society, particularly those which
usually separate photographers from their subject.
Antoine D’Agata says that he “sought to live amongst those whom photography
has hitherto been happy to merely watch”.
©Antoine d’Agata
©Antoine d’Agata
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
TONI CATANY
Shadow Chronicles
Toni Catany was born in Llucmajor
(Mallorca) in 1942 and died in Barcelona in 2013.
Well known for his coloured still lifes,
he was also a talented landscape and
portrait painter whose work has been
exhibited at the Château d’eau in Toulouse, the Maison Européenne de la
Photographie and the Agathe Gaillard
gallery in Paris.
In 2000, Barcelona’s Museu Nacional
d’Art de Catalunya held a major retrospective of his work. The Arxiu des
Ombres (Shadow Chronicles) exhibition
comprises over 40 works, including
36 divided into 6 different portfolios.
They cover 6 different themes: Angkor,
Venice, Mexico (an homage to Paul
Strand) nudes, dance and still life.
Since the invention of the method at
the end of the 19th century, photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul
Strand, Clarence White, Edward Weston, Edward S. Curtis, Irving Penn, Manuel Álvarez Bravo and most famous
historical photographers have all produced superb platinum and palladium
prints. Despite being complicated and
expensive to produce, platinum prints
are the high-water mark of photographic art, both in terms of their beauty
and their permanence. A well-preserved platinum or palladium print can last
for thousands of years…
Portfolio Mexico © Toni Catany / collection Valid
Foto Gallery Barcelone
Portfolio Shadows © Toni Catany, collection Valid Foto Gallery
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
COLLECTION
GABINO DIEGO
Women and Children First
This collection by the famous Spanish actor Gabino Diego includes over 300
photographs, many by famous photographers. Diego started his collection
when he was 18 years old and it has continued to expand, encompassing
new Spanish and international works. There are a number of recurrent
themes: portraits of women, children and animals.
Diego enjoys sharing his love and extensive knowledge of photography. The
Beirut exhibition focuses on the Spanish and Latin American photographs
in his collection. These include Toni Catany, Mario Cravo Neto, Alberto
Garcia Alix,
Joan Fontcuberta, Isabel Munoz, Cristina Garcia Rodero and
many more.
Xavier Miserachs, Marika Green en Cadaqués, 1958
Carlos Pérez Siquier, Marbella, 1975
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
ÁLVARO
SÁNCHEZ-MONTAÑÉS
Unprepared and unsorted
Born in 1973 and now living in Barcelona, Álvaro Sánchez-Montañés is a photographer of the unexpected, the unrehearsed. He likes to capture on the fly these
snapshots of the microscopic capsules of time which slip into the ordinary everyday, in which everyday objects or events appear slightly out of kilter, or, on the
contrary, work rather too well, as though chance was overplaying its hand. The
gates of paradise are closed, dogs fly, sea swimmers, in hats and goggles, look
like aliens… His cheerful, gaily coloured world is also filled with reminiscences:
a bar at night, as snapped by him, seems straight out of a Hopper canvas. Sánchez-Montañés’ work has been exhibited in Europe and America, and has won
him many prizes. His works feature in a number of private and public collections.
© Álvaro Sánchez-Montañés, Valid Foto Gallery Barcelone
© Álvaro Sánchez-Montañés, Valid Foto Gallery Barcelone
© Álvaro Sánchez-Montañés, Valid Foto Gallery Barcelone
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
LUIS VIOQUE
An Imaginary Journey
A self-taught photographer born in Madrid in 1966, Luis Vioque’s panoramic
images create a veritable road movie.
We follow him along deserted roads, which might be crossing almost any region
of the world, to the journey’s end on the shores of a surfing hotspot. The choice
of panoramic format, stretching the frame, does not easily lend itself to human
illusions: Vioque’s figures are not the stars of the show here; rather, they are
often mere silhouettes.
Centre stage are the huge skies, waves, vast horizons occasionally punctuated
by the geometric precision of a building. Yet, nothing is oppressive here, quite
the contrary. His carefully constructed images are a paean to freedom, to light;
images which have clearly seduced Vioque’s many publishers.
However, one wonders if the real heroes here are not the clouds, cotton-wool
fantasies carried on the wind, strokes of white over the wide blue yonder
© Luis Vioque, Valid Foto Gallery Barcelone
© Luis Vioque, Valid Foto Gallery Barcelone
© Luis Vioque, Valid Foto Gallery Barcelone
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
ANGELO ANTOLINO
Women of the Camorra
The Neapolitan Camorra is part of the
story (or, rather, the mythology) of
southern Italy. A genuine born-andbred Neapolitan who continues to live
in the area, Angelo Antolino refuses to
perpetuate the usual gangsters-andvendettas clichés.
Taking a new angle, he decided to show
the female relatives of all these “men
of honour”, in this paradoxical society
where the macho façade cannot for
long hide the matriarchal empire.
He thus decided to document a crisis
point in the life of the clans, Operation
“Clean Piazza” operation (Piazza Pulita)
launched by the police in March 2007.
Tens of drug traffickers were arrested,
leaving their wives permanently in sole
charge of their families. Antolino follows
these women’s daily lives, women who
are both immersed in the city and yet
strangers to it.
Trois femmes bavardent
dans la cuisine de leur
appartement.
Aucune d’entre elles n’a
de travail. Le clan de
leurs maris leur verse un
« salaire » tous les mois,
appelé « mesata ».
Ces femmes passent le
plus clair de leur temps
dans leurs maisons.
Naples - 2007
© Angelo Antolino /
Cosmos
Un groupe de femmes
dans la cour de
l’immeuble où elles
habitent.
Naples - 2007
© Angelo Antolino /
Cosmos
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
ALESSANDRO PUCCINELLI
I have crossed the 7 seas
The work of Alessandro Puccinelli can,
without a doubt, be classified as political. Deeply shocked to learn of the
extent to which our oceans are being
polluted by non-degradable plastic
waste, he decided to put his expertise as an infomercial photographer
to work to on visual and artistic awareness-raising of the issue.
Having collected flotsam and jetsam
he has found washed up along the
coast, he stages and photographs
these found objects as if they were
luxury goods.
The black background, conveying notions of both opulence and morbidity,
and the perfectly positioned lighting,
serve to magnify the empty bottle, the
punctured balloon, the abandoned
toy. "I have glamorised these objects,
like wounded soldiers returning from
war, battered and bruised”, says the
photographer. “I have idealized their
wounds and have given them the aura
of having survived storms, wind, rain,
sun and salt." But this is not just about
conferring glory upon unloved objects
but drawing the public’s attention to
this iconic paradox.
The most paradoxical point being that
in these studio-produced images, we
never get so much as a glimpse of the
sea! And it is this which fascinates Puccinelli. Having nurtured a deep love of
seascapes since his adolescence, he
often even chose to leave his native
Tuscany to enjoy the beauties of the
Portuguese coast. He wants his "Crossing of the Seven Seas" to look like an
artistic campaign, inviting viewers to
act themselves for the good of our
singularly endangered "blue planet".
Rubber duck © Alessandro Puccinelli
Plastic bottle © Alessandro Puccinelli
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
RANDA MIRZA
Beirutopia
Beirutopia is a future glimpse of Beirut's portrait. Since the civil war ended in
1990, Beirut has been seeking to renew its mythical status as a glamorous city
where East meets West. The city is currently experiencing a vigorous property
boom, fuelled by the entry of foreign capital and major speculation. To market
these burgeoning construction projects, developers are erecting huge billboards
depicting the future buildings. These posters are not only mock-ups but biopoliticized representations, i.e. images identifying a form of power over people's
lives. In an illusory way, they simulate, if not promulgate, the building, its
environment, its interiors, its people and their lifestyle.
The photographs from this "Beirutopia" series form a mise en abyme of the
virtual buildings’ billboards, framed within the real space in which they are
located. The intersection of the virtual and the real imbues the photographs
with an air of unsettling strangeness, reflecting the current transformation of
the city. This sense of unease is further increased by their framing, by effects of
scale and plane, forming a critical reading of the urban development. Beirutopia
refers to a counter-utopia, making no distinction between the illusory images
and the stories of the pastiche it embodies. This merging of the virtual and the
real redefines the urban space and its potentialities, bringing forth new forms
of identification and re-appropriations of the social and spatial fabric. As such,
the photographs form a space of resistance.
Randa Mirza and Stephanie Dadour
Randa Mirza, Beirut is back and it is beautiful, série Beirutopia
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
KARIM SAKR
Beirut Street photography
Nothing in Karim Sakr’s early career could have predicted his later success as an
exhibited photographer and his winning of the Photomed Beirut Prize in 2015.
An engineer by profession, he took a radical new view of Beirut city when in 2011
he joined the Lebanese capital’s community of "street photographers". It was
then that discovered "a cultural crossroads three minutes from my front door,"
and decided to create his own affectionate and amused visual chronicle of it.
Amidst the many, often violent, major changes that the city is undergoing, Karim
Sakr wishes to create a memory and to document an art d’être in the world.
Colours, flavours, shapes: his is a vibrant Lebanon, and one entirely devoid of
the often disparaging connotations of the word, and one which he exquisitely
and fleetingly captures.
© Karim Sakr
© Karim Sakr
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
EDOUARD BOUBAT
Mediterraneo
Crossing the Strait of Gibraltar for the first time in 1951, the young
Edouard Boubat (1923-1999) had a revelation: the Mediterranean was
for him the place of all origins. It was there that he experienced, beneath
the blazing summer sun, the inviolate presence of the gods. His memory
is filled, too, with all the great travellers who crossed its shores, as he did
for years, filing his many reports, particularly for the magazine "Réalités".
However, there is nothing archaeological about Boubat’s Mediterranean
space. It is infinitely alive, populated , even in the post-war period, by
figures and scenes that seem very distant to us now. Is is here that the
term "humanist photography" seems particularly appropriate: largely
indifferent to the majesty of the elements themselves, Boubat’s scintillating vision is only fully articulated by “animated” lands, for whom men
and women, walking, loving and dreaming, give life its fullest expression.
For him, the sea and the sky have no time for passing fancies, capturing the youthful beauties of yesteryear to confer upon them
a kind of eternity with Homerian or Hesiodian overtones. What
is the secret of this alchemy? An incomparable light, whose inte r p l ay a n d p re s e n c e t h e p h o to g ra p h e r re l e nt l e s s l y p u rs u e s .
Egypte 1955 © Édouard Boubat
Jeune femme au chapeau © Édouard Boubat
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
ELSIE HADDAD
Bogota
The images in the "Bogota" collection were taken in 2013 in the Hotel Bogota,
situated near the Kurfurstendam in Berlin. Built in 1911, the building was originally a domestic residence.
In the 1920s, it was home to a number of famous artists. It was later commandeered by, the Nazis for use as the party’s Cultural Office. After the Second
World War, it changed hands between first Russian and then British proprietors.
In the 1950s, bought by one of its former owners who had fled the war in Latin
America, it became the Bogota Hotel. In 1964 the Rissmann family bought the
hotel, giving it a unique 1930s décor which paid tribute to many artists of the
time. This included Simon Yva, a pioneering fashion photographer, and his teacher Helmut Newton, himself a regular guest at this hotel, which he in fact
photographed on many occasions.
By 2013, the Bogota Hotel was about to be bought to be transformed into an
office building. It was at this precise moment that Elsie Haddad decided to photograph it. She walks down its corridors, into the rooms, passing the walls on
which still hang some paintings and period photographs. Suffused by dreams of
encounters and artistic reminiscences of the 1930s, she nostalgically captures
the hotel’s last moments, a few fleeting images before the inexorable march of
time sweeps it onwards.
Elsie Haddad, Bogota
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
EMMA GROSBOIS
Those Who Are Watching Us
Since ancient times, protective deities have watched over every home, whether
the souls of ancestors, benevolent spirits, etc. We set up little altars for them,
where collections of images, as faded as they are miscellaneous, adorn our
domestic retables.
Has Christianity, with its rigorous doctrine of intercession, ended these intimate
forms of worship? In the Mediterranean, this is clearly not the case!
Now, just as in the past, the worshipful and the worshipped are part of the
family. Emma Grobois, a young French artist based in Italy, explores the burgeoning world of votive images in Palermo. It is a radical undertaking: in referencing those who cultivate the memory of saints and ancestors in this way
(Padre Pio and il nonno side by side), all she shows of them is their little altars
– a Mapplethorpian device- leaving the viewer to imagine those behind such
assemblies.
"Those who are watching us" are the intercessors who watch over their devout
Sicilians but also watch us watching them, the people of Palermo being necessarily the blind spot here. The photographer leaves it to us to reconstruct all these
fragments, all these traces," the cartography of people's lived experiences". It
is a great opportunity to reflect on the mystery of these images which “pass
through time" (G. Didi-Huberman) and which speak of the vagaries of a faith
that refuses to die out.
Ceux qui nous regardent © Emma Grosbois
Ceux qui nous regardent © Emma Grosbois
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
ARNO BRIGNON
Free doors to Spain : Gibraltar
Is Gibraltar really the open gateway to Europe that we imagine? The British
colony of the Pillars of Hercules encompasses all paradoxes, with its phantom
businesses, its disproportionate income, and its drudge workers, all on a tiny
rock. This paradox has captured the imagination of Arno Brignon.
Born in 1976 in Toulouse, he is a photographer with a strong affinity for confused
territories, these urban places in which the sovereign city of the classical era
dissolves. His work on Gibraltar is of a piece with other improbable outgrowths
of Spain: Ceuta on the other side of the sea and Pas de la Casa on the Andorran
border. He records its days and nights through impressions and photographic
insights without trying to build an overarching narrative, through a series of
fluid and peculiarly evocative images.
© Arno Brignon / Signatures
© Arno Brignon / Signatures
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
INVITATION TO LEBANESE
GALLERIES
The objective of Photomed is to promote Mediterranean photography and highlight Lebanese photography.
It is in this spirit that Lebanese galleries are being honored since they have long
carried out significant and constant efforts to raise awareness and to promote
the art of photography. Hence, the growing interest of the Lebanese public
towards photography. For the third edition of Photomed, the following Lebanese
galleries are invited to showcase Lebanese photographers.
The following invited galleries will present the works of:
• Galerie Tanit: Gilbert Hage, Lamia Maria Abillama
• Galerie Janine Rubeiz: Lara Tabet, Myriam Boulos
• Galerie Art Factum: Caroline Tabet, Tanya Traboulsi
• Galerie Agial: Waddah Faris, Hady Sy
• Galerie Alice Mogabgab: Tony Hage Smoking Area ©Gilbert Hage, Courtesy Galerie Tanit
Zero Dollar Back Arabic Sifer English Sifr BW Invert 110x46, Hady Sy, Courtesy Galerie Agial
Pommes, Lara Tabet, Courtesy Galerie Janine Rubeiz
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
MEDITERRANEAN EXPRESSIONS. FROM POETRY TO POLITICS
From its beginnings as an experimental art
form with no status, video has, over time,
come to be a crucial part of contemporary
creation. Some of the greatest institutions
now readily devote entire exhibitions to it,
from the Bill Viola retrospective at the Grand
Palais to Schaulager’s Steve McQueen exhibition. At the same time, a number of international fairs have sprung up, such as LOOP in
Barcelona, and festivals, such as the Biennale
of Moving Images in Geneva.
Photographers are the artists naturally most
at home with video work, not only because
it is a short artistic step to take from fixed
image making, but also, on the technological
front, due to the recent appearance of the
“video” function on photographic cameras.
So it is that many artists now move effortlessly between fixed and moving images.
The Mediterranean Expressions. From Poetry
to Politics exhibition was originally conceived
by Jean-Luc Monterosso, Philippe Sérénon
and Ricardo Vazquez for the Hôtel des Arts
in Toulon. From the original collection, Guillaume de Sardes presents this restructured,
pared-down version. As his title implies,
it showcases the work of Mediterranean
artists, some of whom work primarily with
form, whilst others address contemporary
social issues. Artists such as Ange Leccia and
Beatrice Pediconi might be classified within
the former group, with Danielle Arbid in the
latter, whilst Louidgi Beltrame occupies a kind
of middle ground between these two video
art schools.
Corsican-born French film-maker Ange Leccia
presents a series of works including Orage
[Storm] (2000), La Mer [The Sea] (1991) and
Fumées [Smoke] (1995), based around the
elements, all emphasising their repetitive
and pictorial elements. His work, showing
lightning strikes against a dark sky, is a continuation of the venerable tradition of landscape painting, as practiced by Lorrain in the
17th century, and Vernet in the 18th.
Italian Beatrice Pediconi’s video (Untitled,
2015), goes further still into formalism as
what she shows us (flowing particles and
fluids moving in an indeterminate space, set
to music by Alessio Vlad) becomes purely
abstract. Undoubtedly, the fascination her
video holds for the viewer is down to this
indeterminacy, this vagueness, this abstraction itself.
Louidgi Beltrame, Brasilia/Chandigarh, 26' (collection Jousse Entreprise)
Danielle Arbid’s documentary film, This Smell
of Sex (2008), seems, on the other hand, firmly anchored in reality, with the filmmaker
presenting a series of intimate confessions
collected from her Beirut friends. However,
these revelations are delivered as a series of
off-screen voices, played over archival Super
8 video footage, creating strange echoes
which interplay voices and images. Danielle
Arbid hereby transcends straight illustration,
resulting in a surprising video with tremendous style and grace.
Louidgi Beltrame’s video Brasilia/Chandigarh (2008) examines methods of human
organisation as expressed through 20th
century town planning and architecture. His
documentary looks at the creations of Oscar
Niemeyer in Brazil and Le Corbusier in India,
creations which spring from the same utopian dream: creating the ideal city.
Danielle Arbid, This Smell of sex, 20’45’’ (collection privée)
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
2016
Photo
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from january 20 till february 10
the rendez-vous of photomed
festival of mediterranean photography
www.photomedliban.com
AGENDA OF EXHIBITIONS
All exhibitions are open from January 20 until February 10, 2016
Info available on www.photomedliban.com
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Hotel Le Gray, Martyrs Square
Inauguration: Wednesday January 20th, at 12:00 pm
Open daily from 9:00 am till 10:00 pm
Institut français du Liban, Espace des Lettres, Damascus road
Inauguration: Friday January 22nd, at 6:00 pm
Open Monday till Friday, from 10:00 am till 7:00 pm and Saturday from 10:00 am till
2:00 pm. Closed on Sunday.
* Emma Grosbois « Those who are watching us»
* Arno Brignon « Free doors to Spain: Gibraltar »
Station, Jisr El Wati near Beirut Art Center
* Elsie Haddad « Bogota »
Inauguration: Friday January 22nd, at 8:30 pm
Open Monday till Saturday, from 12:00 pm till 7:00 pm. Closed on Sundays.
Beirut Exhibition Center (BEC), BIEL
* Randa Mirza « Beirutopia »
* Karim Sakr « Beirut Street Photography »
* Videos from the exhibition «Mediterranean Expressions. From Poetry to Politics»:
- Ange Leccia, Orage, 24'17" (collection MEP)
- Béatrice Pediconi, untitled 2015, 6'48" (collection MEP)
- Louidgi Beltrame, Brasilia/Chandigarh, 26' (collection Jousse Entreprise)
- Danielle Arbid, This Smell of sex, 20’45’’ (private collection)
Inauguration: Wednesday January 20th, at 6:00 pm
Open daily from 11:00 am till 8:00 pm
* The Gabino Diego Collection « Women and children first »
* Toni Catany « Shadow Chronicles »
* Alvaro Sanchez-Montanes « Unprepared and unsorted »
* Luis Vioque « An imaginary journey »
* Alessandro Puccinelli « I have crossed the 7 seas »
* Angelo Antolino « Women of the Camorra »
* Antoine D’Agata « Home Town »
* Lebanese Galleries:
- Galerie Tanit: Gilbert Hage, Lamia Maria Abillama
- Galerie Janine Rubeiz: Lara Tabet, Myriam Boulos
- Galerie Art Factum: Caroline Tabet, Tanya Traboulsi
- Galerie Agial: Waddah Faris, Hady Sy
- Galerie Alice Mogabgab: Tony Hage
Byblos Bank Headquarters, Elias Sarkis Avenue, Ashrafieh
Inauguration: Thursday January 21st, at 6:00 pm
Open Monday till Friday from 4:00 pm till 8:00 pm, on the weekend from
10:00 am till 3:00 pm
* Edouard Boubat « Mediterraneo »
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS
PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST
Three photography workshops are organized with Canon:
« Portrait » with Pierre Anthony Allard, Monday January 25, from 10:00 am
till 12:00 pm and from 2:00 pm till 5:00 pm, at ALBA
Within the frame of its Lebanese edition, Photomed launched a competition for photographers residing in Lebanon.
« Urban Memory » with Caroline Tabet, Monday February 1, from 2:00 pm
till 4:00 pm, at Station
«Architecture of the city » with Serge Najjar, Saturday 6 february, from 2:00
pm till 5:00 pm, at ALBA
The winner of this contest will have the opportunity to exhibit his work at the upcoming
Photomed Festival in France, which will take place in May 2016.
As for the 2nd prize winner, his work will be exhibited during the 2nd semester of 2016
at the gallery of the Institut français du Liban.
For booking: www.ihjoz.com
The results of the photography contest will be announced on Friday January 22, 2016,
at 6:00 pm, at the Institut français du Liban
PORTFOLIO REVIEWS
During the 3rd edition, portfolio reviews are open to photography lovers. It
will take place on Friday, January 22 and Saturday, January 23, from 10:00 am
till 12:30 pm at Byblos Bank Headquarters.
The panel of experts consists of: Philippe Heullant, President of Photomed,
Philippe Sérénon, Director of the photo agency « Vu » and co-founder of
Photomed, Guillaume de Sardes, Artistic Director of Photomed, and Teixido
Braulio, gallery owner.
The European Union prize will be awarded to the winner of the best portfolio who will be also entitled to the publication of a book and an exhibition at
Hotel Le Gray.
For portfolio reviews registration: http://photomedliban.com/en/portfolioreviews/
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
2016
Photo
med
from january 20 till february 10
Under the High Patronage of H.E. Michel Pharaon, Minister of Tourism
Co-organizer
Main Partner
Main Sponsors
partners and sponsors
Partner Public Institutions
Sponsors
festival of mediterranean photography
www.photomedliban.com
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016
2016
Photo
med
from january 20 till february 10
ORGANIZERS
* Philippe Heullant, Co- Founder and President of Photomed France, Liban
and Maroc, [email protected]
* Serge Akl, Co- Founder and Vice-President of Photomed Liban,
[email protected]
* Tony El Hage, Co-Founder and Treasurer of Photomed Liban,
[email protected]
* Guillaume de Sardes, Artistic Director, [email protected]
PRESS
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festival of mediterranean photography
www.photomedliban.com
F E S T I VA L O F M E D I T E R R A N E A N P H OTO G R A P H Y 2016