It takes a special kind of photographer to show us a city in a different light. And Lebanese photographer Serge Najjar has managed to do just this, focusing his lens on his home city of Beirut to bring out the stunning contrasts of light and dark in his s
It takes a special kind of photographer to show us a city in a different light. And Lebanese photographer Serge Najjar has managed to do just this, focusing his lens on his home city of Beirut to bring out the stunning contrasts of light and dark in his series The Architecture of Light.
Serge Najjar’s photographs show viewers an abstract reality made up of shapes, colors, shadows and materials. “I go towards the unknown to find an architecture that appeals to me,” he says. The blue-eyed Lebanese native sees a photograph before he takes it, visualizing it in square format, “since [he] started out posting [his] pictures to Instagram.” Then he waits for the right moment, when a human figure adds a touch of reality to his abstract compositions. “If it doesn’t happen naturally, I start a conversation with a passerby.”
The concrete world of buildings and architecture are transformed by the photographer’s eye into swooping abstractions, playful scenes, moments of pure visual pleasure
In most cases, what captures my attention are the architectural details. My aim, then, is to try and get closer to abstraction (within the real world). I try to look at my everyday surroundings with a new eye. These photos show what I have seen.
