Guillaume De Sardes - Beirut Round Trips

Guillaume de Sardes is a photographer, video artist, curator, and writer. In this, his photographic essay of Beirut, he invites the observer into his personal universe. Guided by desires, curiosity, and chance, De Sardes wanders like a flaneur, discreetly discovering the city without any tourist map or plan. It is a hybrid narrative composed of images that are subtly composed, even when depicting the scars left by the city's brutal history, collisions of past and future. Through lyrical interjections provided by short texts, he describes his experiences in the city, creating a cinematic travelogue situated somewhere between dream and reality. With essays by Simone Klein and Rayya Badran.