Like the Stage for a Tragic Comedy
Like the Stage for a Tragic Comedy
By Youmna Jazzar Medlej
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▸ Features: Limited Edition Framed▸ Materials: Paper
▸ Art technique: Photography
▸ Dimensions (cm): 44.5 x 54.0 x 2.0
▸ Net Weight (kg): 2.1
Youmna's photos tell the urban story through three events and the environment. This photo is part of her collection.
I had a multitude of feelings when taking this picture. After the August 4th explosion, buildings were gradually restored, but can you restore the human spirit? Especially when justice has not been served? The dead, the wounded, those who lost everything, those who lost hope—can they ever be truly restored? For me, this picture is a theater, with the changing colors making it resemble a stage, destroyed and not yet restored. The scene unfolds behind these riddled walls, where the real actors are the irresponsible people hiding out of reach, laughing and lying. It’s a terrible tragedy, and the tragedy is still ongoing.
About Youmna Jazzar Medlej
On her first Photography course at school, Youmna Jazzar knew it would be her way of expressing herself. She took photography courses at EFET in Paris and worked for years as a freelance photographer and journalist, pointing out the beautiful, positive, interesting sides of culture, history, art, street art, design…
Through chaotic times, while all is in turmoil, she wanted to express her deep feelings, her own glance. She found her photos “Theme” with what she witnessed on the grounds. A challenge, but the feeling that “it is there to discover” was strong. It was not about technique, but feelings, about what she knew, lived and experienced, about her people enduring and still are today, the stories with Chaos, Covid and the huge 4th August Explosion of the Beirut Port. She crossed the streets, looking for it, on and on. Believe it or not, it was, is, also a kind of therapy, a way to remove the sadness, the fear, the suffering … A way to survive.,