Roger Moukarzel
/ Lebanon

Roger Moukarzel is a Lebanese photographer born in Beit
Chabab in 1962. He has worked in photography since he
was fifteen years old. He began photographing to document
the devastation and the effects of war conflicts in Lebanon
and the Middle East. In the early 1980s he worked as a war
reporter for the Sygma and Reuters agencies, appearing
in publications such as Washington post and Newsweek,
and getting a cover in Paris match for the magazine’s 40th
anniversary. In the 1990s he moved to Paris where he began
to work for fashion and deepened his artistic career, in which
photography is a tool to promote tolerance, respect and
freedom. In France he received the 1999 Ministry of Culture
Prize. He is the founder of Mimime, one of the most credited
production companies in the Middle East. He was the creative
director of the Dubai design district.
In his series Pieces, he uses photography to find small
fragments of lives shattered in the catastrophic explosion of
the port of Beirut in 2020: he is able to tell from a human but
not voyeuristic perspective the dramatic effects of a social
condition of degradation.