Year: 2016

Origin: France

Edition: 7

Signed: Certificate of Authenticity

Size: 70 x 50 cm

Frame:

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.

Jewish Traces in Lebanon

In April 2016, Sabyl Ghoussoub went searching for traces of Jewish life in Lebanon, through the ruins of synagogues and cemeteries.

In 1948 there were about twenty thousand Jews living in Lebanon, that number increased with the influx of Jews from Iraq and Syria until 1967. Today the community counts 50 to 2000 members. Friendly with some members of the community, the artist knew nothing of their places of worship. Curious to find out more a few google searches led him first to the Magen Abraham Synagogues of Beirut. Built in 1926, it had the reputation of being the most beautiful of the region. It is situated in the old Jewish quarters of Beirut and has been renovated in 2010. Those and other photos found on Google promted Sabyl to seek them out and document his visit.

read more about his visit in Orient xxi

Sabyl Ghoussoub, a bit of a 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.