Chrétiens du Liban – Christians of Lebanon
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Patrick Baz – Chrétiens du Liban – Christians of Lebanon – Rites and Rituals.
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LebanonPostcard presents Patrick Baz – Chrétiens du Liban – Christians of Lebanon – Rites and Rituals – Famyras.
Couverture rigide avec protège – Hardcover book with protection, 38.5×23 cm, 260 pages.
Lettre d’intention
Après avoir décidé de mettre fin à ma longue carrière de photographe de guerre à travers le monde, je suis rentré au Liban pour me ressourcer et retrouver mes racines.
À mon retour dans mon pays d’origine, la région était ensanglantée par les massacres des chrétiens et des différentes minorités par des groupes islamistes.
Lors des discussions de salon, j’étais bombardé par les questions récurrentes qui taraudent les membres de la communauté chrétienne: “Est-ce qu’on va rester?
Est-ce qu’ils vont nous chasser ? Est-ce qu’ils vont nous massacrer ?” Comme si, de par mon travail, mon ancien statut de correspondant de guerre et mes voyages dans ces zones à risque, je connaissais la réponse.
J’étais aussi surpris par les réactions identitaires de plus en plus visibles de cette communauté et ses signes religieux ostentatoires.
Des croix et des statues de saints levantins posées sur les collines pour marquer le territoire, des processions religieuses dans les lieux publics, des images pieuses et des crucifix qui décorent les entrées d’immeubles, les véhicules et les routes de montagne.
Je me suis alors dit qu’il n’existait pas de témoignage visuel sur les chrétiens du Liban du XXIe siècle. Aucune approche contemporaine pour mieux définir cette communauté aujourd’hui. Qui sont-ils? Que font-ils? Comment vivent-ils ? Des questions qui ont commencé à m’interpeller.
Je me suis donc lancé dans cette aventure pour découvrir la communauté à laquelle techniquement j’appartiens sur ma fiche d’état civil, dans laquelle j’ai grandi et que j’ai côtoyée toute ma vie. Tous les matins, j’explorais un des aspects du vivre chrétien au Liban aujourd’hui. J’ai découvert des histoires, des ferveurs, des lieux, des personnes. J’ai fait des milliers de photos, incapable de m’arrêter devant l’ampleur de ce dont j’étais témoin. Je n’ai jamais cherché à avoir une approche historique ou thématique. Mais bien une approche visuelle et humaine sans jugement aucun. J’ai photographié ce que j’ai vu.
Je suis revenu de ce voyage avec des convictions, des affirmations, des étonnements, des bouleversements. Je vous invite à les partager avec moi.
Patrick Baz
Letter of Intent
After putting an end to a long career as an international war photographer, I went back to my roots, to Lebanon, in order to recharge my batteries.
As I returned home, the whole region was in turmoil over the massacre of Christians and different minorities at the hands of Islamic groups.
During random conversations, I kept getting asked the same questions that seemed to be gnawing at the members of the Christian community: “Will we stay here? Will they throw us out? Will they persecute us?” They looked to me, as if I, a former war correspondent who had traveled to conflict zones, held all the answers.
I was also surprised by the community’s increasingly visible identity and the abundance of its ostentatious signs.
Crosses and statues of Levantine saints erected on hills to mark the territory, religious processions in public spaces, holy pictures, and crucifixes adorning building lobbies, vehicules and mountains roads.
That’s when it hit me: there is no visual testimonial about the 21st-century Lebanese Christians. No contemporary approach that could serve to better define the community’s current situation. Who are the Christians of Lebanon? What do they do? How do they live? These countless questions intrigued me.
So I embarked on a journey to discover the community I technically belong to on my civil status certificate; the very community I grew up in, and its people, with whom I rubbed shoulders my whole life. Every morning, I explored an aspect of the Christian way of life in present-day Lebanon. I discovered stories, piety, places, and people. I took thousands of pictures, unable to stop myself from capturing the immensity of what I was witnessing. I never intended to take a historical or thematic approach to the subject, but rather a visual and humane one, devoid of judgment. I just captured what I saw.
I came back from this journey with convictions, assertions, surprises, and breakthroughs. I invite you all to share them with me.
Patrick Baz
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