How can one feel at home in Lebanon? Ghaleb Cabbabe provides an answer — through photos
"How Can It Still Be Home?" (Kehrer, 2025) offers a rediscovery of both the material and immaterial elements that offer a sense of what it means to be home.
Selected by the Lucie Foundation Photo Book Prize in October 2025 and winner of the German Photo Book Award in November, "How Can It Still Be Home?" (Kehrer, 2025) by Ghaleb Cabbabe was presented at various book signings this fall, notably during Paris Photo and in Beirut. Published by Kehrer Verlag, a German publishing house known for its works dedicated to contemporary photography and visual arts, the book fits into an editorial line attentive to intimate stories and committed visual narratives. The photographer Ghaleb Cabbabe. (Photo courtesy of Ghaleb Cabbabe) The artist started from a simple, paradoxical observation: despite the successive upheavals Lebanon has experienced in recent years, the feeling of coming home remains the same. What sustains it? What does it gain or lose according to objects, glances, gestures, or...
Selected by the Lucie Foundation Photo Book Prize in October 2025 and winner of the German Photo Book Award in November, "How Can It Still Be Home?" (Kehrer, 2025) by Ghaleb Cabbabe was presented at various book signings this fall, notably during Paris Photo and in Beirut. Published by Kehrer Verlag, a German publishing house known for its works dedicated to contemporary photography and visual arts, the book fits into an editorial line attentive to intimate stories and committed visual narratives. The photographer Ghaleb Cabbabe. (Photo courtesy of Ghaleb Cabbabe) The artist started from a simple, paradoxical observation: despite the successive upheavals Lebanon has experienced in recent years, the feeling of coming home remains the same. What sustains it? What does it gain or lose according to objects, glances, gestures, or...
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