Year: 2016

Origin: France

Edition: 7

Signed: Certificate of Authenticity

Size: 230 x 100 cm

Frame: no

Condition: New

Other: All our photos and prints are realized on an Epson SureColor P-20000 Series, with long-lasting UltraChrome K3 pigment inks (100 to 200 years) ensuring high resistance to UV's and humidity.

Sweet Jesus - Doux Jésus

In this Dyptich, Sabyl stages the Cena and the aftermath, but instead of Jesus and the apostles, we find terrorists and their victim.

Why “Sweet Jesus” as a title for the photography with the characters? Because the night of the Charlie Hebdo attack, I was at the Place de la République with my uncle and our phones were invaded with messages. We were receiving long monologues about the horrific act that had happened and then, all of a sudden, he received a message of only two words: “Sweet Jesus”. This expression is generally used to indicate astonishment, fear, shock, and it seemed as the only appropriate way to describe the situation. Looking at the photograph, those two words immediately came to my mind.

Interview taken from fotoroom

Sabyl Ghoussoub, a modern Renaissance Man, who spends his time between Paris and Batroun.

He became director of the Lebanese Film Festival in Beirut in 2011. Since 2015, he has switched his focus on photography and writing. He writes for various publications, both on and off-line such as Orient XXI, Agenda Culturel and Tamyras. As of 2018 he has created his blog with co-writer Laura Schwartz on the French magazine, Liberation. He is currently preparing a photo book with the Lebanese publishing house Tamyras and has published his first novel, "Le Nez Juif".

His photos and photo-reportages have been published in l'Oeil de la Photographie, the Guardian, Art Paper as well as Fotografia Magazine.