"Etre" de lumière, by Rita Saadé

Starting April 4, Beirut's French Institute (ex-CCF, Damascus Street) will host the first solo exhibition of the Lebanese photographer Rita Saadé. Last January, she was awarded the second prize in the framework of the PhotoMed Festival.
In "Etre" de lumière, she will present four different beautiful B&W series (Someone is out there, Etre de lumière, Home and A la recherche d'une enfance perdue). See you there!

More info here.

Looking forward PhotoMed in Beirut

At last! One photographic rendezvous not to be missed in Beirut... After its first edition in Sanary-sur-Mer (France) last May, PhotoMed is moving to Beirut. Opening next Friday. You will discover some of Beirut Prints' photographers (Ghadi Smat, Tanya Traboulsi, Mazen Jannoun, Lara Zankoul), specially in Saifi Village through "La jeune photographie libanaise" show.

Later in January, amateur and professional photographers will be welcomed to a workshop hosted by Bilal from LollipopArt. All details here. Adobe profiles, color correction, image processing, white balance... You'll learn everything you need to learn. See you there!

Lebanese photographic scene now @ PhotoMed Festival

Tanya Traboulsi, Lara Zankoul, Ghadi Smat and Mazen Jannoun - part of the Beirut Prints collective -, Caroline Tabet, Joanna Andraos and Emile Issa exhibit their artwork nowadays in Sanary-sur-Mer (south of France) in the frame of the PhotoMed Festival. One of them sent us a short message yesterday saying: "I did learn a lot by taking part to this festival..." 

The Lebanese participation is curated by Tony el-Hage and co-organized by Serge Akl from the Tourism Office of Lebanon in Paris. Thanks to them for being so engaged in promoting Lebanese artists.

French TV channel TV5 did air a short report (in French) about them.

Thanks to the Festival's Facebook page for the pictures above. You can also check Toromoro's Facebook album about the festival.

Tanya, Lara, Ghadi & Mazen @ PhotoMed 2013 (France)

As Lebanon will be the guest country of the upcoming edition of the PhotoMed Festival (South of France), curator Tony el-Hage selected 7 photographers working in Beirut: Tanya Traboulsi, Lara Zankoul, Ghadi Smat and Mazen Jannoun, parts of the Beirut Prints collective, in addition to Caroline Tabet, Joanna Andraos and Emile Issa. The event is co-organized by Serge Akl and the Tourism Office of Lebanon in Paris.

See you there on May 23!