{"id":13046,"date":"2018-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/subtle-beauty-everyday-life-beirut\/"},"modified":"2022-09-03T11:32:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T11:32:36","slug":"subtle-beauty-everyday-life-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/subtle-beauty-everyday-life-beirut\/","title":{"rendered":"The Subtle Beauty of Everyday Life in Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI have been photographing everyday life in Lebanon since 2014, as part of a personal project. I purposefully wanted to document Beirut because it\u2019s such a hybrid city. It\u2019s super-reflective of my Gulf and Mediterranean upbringing,\u201d says Cypriot photographer Prod Antzoulis, who grew up in Dubai. \u201cBeirut was my first real introduction to a historic city in the Arab world\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The photographer moved to Dubai in the early 90s, when he was young, during a time when the city was under construction. \u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to define myself. Cyprus is such a hybrid country \u2013 it\u2019s located in the Middle East, but it\u2019s a European country that has a lot of Arab influence \u2013 in terms of values and morals. The things I relate to are influenced by Middle Eastern culture, and not Western culture. This is why Beirut had such a strong impact on me, because it kind of created that balance between both heritages. It feels like my safe space.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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Antzoulis\u2019s work is centred on the idea and concept of nostalgia. \u201cNostalgia comes from a place of trying to understand where things come from. It all ties in with the fact that I grew up in a place that lacked the things I needed when growing up, such as nature for instance. Through my work, I would create my own world. Nostalgia is the result of this process\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The thing that makes Antzoulis\u2019s work stand out is his unique perspective \u2013 because despite not actually being Arab, he\u2019s managed to build and cultivate a very intimate relationship with the Middle East and its people.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt became exhausting for me to hear [in the West] the public\u2019s wrongful portrayal of the Middle East. The message from this series is to remind people that have this misconception of not just Lebanon but the Middle East as a whole, that there is beauty in this region.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI have been photographing everyday life in Lebanon since 2014, as part of a personal project. I purposefully wanted to document Beirut because it\u2019s such a hybrid city. It\u2019s super-reflective of my Gulf and Mediterranean upbringing,\u201d says Cypriot photographer Prod Antzoulis, who grew up in Dubai. \u201cBeirut was my first real introduction to a historic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":13058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4190],"tags":[5532,5533,4697,5534,4401,5535,4405,5536],"primary_tag":[4879,4415],"ppma_author":[4720],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":4720,"user_id":19,"is_guest":0,"slug":"olfaf","display_name":"Olfa Farhat","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/28edbc5427e847ff89d596a6517caa9f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13057,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13046\/revisions\/13057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13046"},{"taxonomy":"primary_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/primary_tag?post=13046"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}