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Photographer:
Samer Mohdad
Biography:
Samer Mohdad, born in 1964 in Bzebdine, Lebanon. After finishing photographic studies at St-Luc Liège, Belgium, in 1988, he began working in Paris for Vu agency. In 1990 the Elysée Museum in Lausanne commissioned him a series of photographs on the Swiss army during the country's 700th birthday for a book and exhibition entitled Voir la Suisse autrement. He then began his work on contemporary Arab world. 1992-1996 he was in charge of the relations with the Arab world at the Elysee Museum in Lausanne. After the publication of his book Les enfants, la guerre followed by an exhibition at Visa pour l’Image in Pérpignan and at the Elysée Museum, he began taking photographs of the 387 Palestinians expelled from Israel to Lebanon's no man's land. Those photos were published in a book under the title Retour à Gaza. "Du", a magazine published in Zurich, asked him to do a special double feature on Islam followed a year later by another feature on Iran. In 1996 he was a jury member at the World Press Photo in Amsterdam and the same year he build the Arab Images Foundation in Beirut. 1997-1999 curator of exhibitions and workshop master at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles. In 1999, he won the Mother Jones Award in San Francisco for his book Mes Arabies published by Actes Sud in France, Braus in Germany and Dar An-Nahar for the Arab countries. The exhibition “Mes Arabies” started in Geneva, follow that it have been showed in Beiteddine Palace and Espace SD in Beirut, Lebanon. In 2000, the show toke place at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, then in Arles during the Rencontres internationales de la Photographie and finish the year at the King Abdulaziz Pubic Library in Riyadh. Conference master “the Arab photographs and its place in the modern history” at Aix-En-Provence university, south France. In 2001 “Mes Arabies” exhibition made a tour in Germany for a show at the IFA galleries in Stuttgart, Bon, and Berlin. In 2003 he published a double issue of “Du” magazine in Zurich “Saudi Arabia in the eye of the typhus”. In 2004 GEO magazine, France, commissioned him a special dossier about Lebanon. In 2005 he produced and published in co-edition with Actes-Sud the book "Assaoudia’’ second part to the Arab trilogy, accompanied by an exhibition part of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie at Arles in France. The same year he Elaborated the project "Mes Ententes" Part of the AFKAR program, sponsored by the European Commission and executed by the Office of Minister of State Administrative Reform (OMSAR). The project established a field analysis of the situation of the return of displaced families to Mount Lebanon, he produced a 7 minutes film and a book. In 2006 he worked on a special history issue of GEO Magazine in France about the roads of crusaders in Lebanon and start teaching photography at Notre Dame University in Lebanon and at The Visual Merchandising School in Vevey Switzerland.
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