Personal photography · Beirut

Beirut, in passing.

A personal photography project documenting sites and everyday scenes from Beirut. Streets, workshops, cafés, and the small details in between.

Photography & selection — Ramsey Hatoum12 photographs
A sunlit Beirut pavement beside a wall painted with a black-and-white filmstrip.
01Along the wall
A Beirut wall covered in line drawings, tangled wires and weathered plaster.
02Marks on the wall
A crowded Beirut workshop with hanging tools, wires and an orange tool chest.
03An open workshop
A black cat stretched out on the pavement outside a coffee shop.
04Outside the café
A framed black-and-white artwork filled with small cars, buses and trucks.
05Cars, on paper
Hands holding a fig beside two cups on a small table.
06A small pause
A quiet Beirut street at night beneath a bright green and yellow neon sign.
07After dark
People gathered in a warmly lit bar around a small blue television.
08The blue television
A blue-and-white Volkswagen van parked on a Beirut street at night.
09Parked for the night
A ginger cat resting across a car roof, its tail hanging over the windshield.
10A place in the sun
A framed portrait above an old radio in a rough stone alcove.
11A face in the room
A photographed book page with an image, Arabic lettering and a highlighted passage.
12A page, kept open

Little things, along the way.