Edition II
Beirut Image Festival 2022
"A trip down memory lane"
About Us
Beirut Image Festival was launched in 2019 by Zakira – the Image Festival Association, in collaboration with Dar al Mussawir and the Union of Arab Photographers. The first of its kind in Lebanon and a pioneering experience in the Arab World, the Beirut Image Festival is an annual regional photography fair held in Beirut and other major Lebanese cities and towns.
The Beirut Image Festival aims to provide photographers with a yearly inspirational and professional forum to display their work and projects. It brings together local and international photographers and artists to share their experiences, exchange ideas, as well as provide them with the opportunity to network, interact and develop shared projects.
Steering Committee
The organizing committee includes photographers and administrators with numerous years of experience iranging from photography, organizing activities and projects. The committee be responsible of supervising the preparation and management of the festival’s activities before and during the festival.
![2019-06-21 08_36_41 Garden of Eden
Ali Haji and Maryam Jamal collaborate to create a series that pushes against anti-feminist themes established in one of the oldest and most retold tales of our time. This series, heavily inspired by the work of Markus Åkesson, reimagines the scriptural account of Eve, and her seduction by the Snake into committing what many cultures consider to be the Original Sin. The series puts Eve's emotional turmoil on display, as she experiences Curiosity, Fear, Shame (of having listened to the Snake), Dismay, and then finally, a complete surrender to having been Seduced.
While the narrative details of the story aren't set in stone, and are often left to interpretation, it still runs in the background of contemporary culture as many of us know it. It's fascinating that the First Sin is often considered the First Sin of the Woman, as if the first descriptor of Eve is not that she's human. Instead of saying that "human beings are weak and easily seduced," we've shifted to "women are weak and easily seduced."
[Kindly note that the images were resized to low-resolution for submission due to the 5MB limit, and aren't the best print-quality files. If accepted, we'd be happy to send you a link to all the high-res files via email for print.]](https://beirutimagefestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Photo-by-Maryam-Jamal-and-Ali-Haji-300x300.jpg)
