Christophe Katrib

Christophe Katrib, born in France in 1976, grew up in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. He studied film and theater in IESAV/USJ and currently works as a freelance director and mixes independent music once a week in a local lounge.

He has been taking photographs and writing songs and poems sporadically for more than 10 years, but he only used to share his artistic work with close friends and family. It took this latest war on Lebanon to drive him out of the shadows and expose some of his recent work to the public.

"They Can't Take That Away From Me: Evacuation in Three Easy Steps"

Apart from all the material destruction and the killings of civilians, the latest Israeli onslaught has made inestimable damage to Lebanon by bleeding it out of its most vital national resources: its people and those who had chosen to make it home. This was a hard thing to deal with; evacuations separated friends, families, and lovers, a deja-vu nobody hoped to see again. I wanted to immortalize that mixed emotion, of beauty of the country, nostalgia, distance, loss, and somehow, hope...

A lot of us are still here, and many will return. To all, I dedicate these pictures.