How Come It Still Makes Us Sad
BY Aude Nasr
This series was shot whilst wandering through the dreamy locations of my childhood—a Lebanon seen through a teenager’s eyes, where nature and the sense of land prevail, and none of the issues faced by the country nowadays seem to exist.
Most of the days I shot these series were occupied by revolution. Coming back to these locations has been a way to reach a sense of peacefulness, while also contemplating and accepting both my belonging to this country and my distance from it and its (my) people due to my everyday reality abroad.
While it has also become difficult, living far, to keep a tight hold on my Lebanese identity, wandering through these places has given me this soft and gentle sense of belonging. In these moments, a sort of sadness, a sense of loss, always walks alongside me, too; all my life, I have been, and I always will be, hanging somewhere in between my Middle-Eastern origins and my living in the west.
All pictures were shot on 125mm film, between Jbeil and the Qadisha Valley, Lebanon.
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Born in the UK and currently living in Paris, Aude Nasr is a Lebanese-French artist whose practice focuses on photography, video and illustration. As many people in today's globalized world, her identity is held somewhere between the different places, cultures and other experiences that compose her. Her work intends to investigate the immateriality of space and belonging, and wishes to explore storytelling and it's possible relatability.
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