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Chérine Yazbeck
Chérine Yazbeck
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I was born in 1970 in Beirut.

Lebanon has been a source of continuous inspiration. At an early stage the city, the loss, the destruction, and the memory became the themes that dominate my photographic career interests'.
Since 1993, I have been working as a photojournalist for several magazines & international media: AFP, Arte, France 24, M6, Planète Thalassa, RTS, SBS and more recently ABC Australia.

The cities I visited provided inspiration for my early images. In 1986, I photographed compulsively the Berlin wall. A few years later, in 1991, I compiled the dramatic pictures I had captured into a portfolio named Beyrouth, destroy.

In 1996, La Laverie des Martyrs, at Zicco Cultural House exhibited my collection of emotive photographs of the Shia martyrs cemetery in Beirut.

Beyrouth, Destroy, in 2013 at Plan Bey, showcased a series of photographs shot between 1991 and 1996 in Beirut. It depicted vivid images of the destruction of Beirut.

Apocalypse Beirut, an ongoing photographic project, is the tale of a city that has been partially destroyed during 15 years of civil war, but in its aftermath, was totally gutted from its soul.

Gaza Hospital, showcased at Beirut Image Festival in 2019, is a testimony of life in a dire situation. “In 2016, I visited Gaza hospital for the first time while I was reporting on a story. The hospital war partially destroyed in the mid-80s. The Gaza hospital story speaks to the ongoing denial of a country that refuses to tackle its own war history”.

In the aftermath of the Beirut blast in August 2020, I began an extensive work on the port and more particularly on the silos.
One of my latest documentaries for ABC Australia, Shockwave, 4Corners shot in August 2020 (40'), was shortlisted for the Lowy Institute: Incredible survival stories from the Beirut blast zone. October 2021.

Je suis mort ce jour-là is a forensic photographic body of work triggered by many walks in the vicinity of the port silos. The silos became a "fictional crime scene". Three different sections display evidence shot in the port, alongside an installation of a reconstitution of the texture of the ground and documents created by myself - forensic doctor, criminal police reports and other documents.

Beirut Port Blast Stories is a documentary filmed over two years and three months. Through the portrait of four victims and a former employee of the silos, the documentary tells a story of Lebanon and its economic and moral degradation until the explosion of the flagship of the national economy; the port of Beirut on August 4, 2020.
I currently live and work in Beirut.

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Education : Masters

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