Beirut Round Trips

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LebanonPostcard.com presents the book: ‘Beirut Round Trips’ by Guillaume De Sardes, hardcover, 30.5×25×2 cm, 130 pages, French/English.

I’ve been in Beirut for a few days now and I have the feeling the city eludes me. I travel by foot but its contours remain indistinct.

I usually broach a city through its map, a simplified and reasoned representation of what direct experience renders scarcely legible. I locate the structural streets that spread like a body’s arteries.

It’s impossible to do so in Beirut because there are no names given to its streets, at least no visible ones.

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 (Impressions, dreams, wanderings: Guillaume de Sardes’ photographs of Beirut) and Rayya Badran.

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