Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut)

Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut), 1987/2019

These plates are from a book I found in a flea market in Beirut in 1994. It consisted of streetscapes of the city by an unsung Lebanese photographer, Ahmed Helou. What also drew me to the book were the hand-written inscriptions in Arabic on each spread, diary-like entries, most likely written by the book’s previous owner.