Dia Mrad, self-portrait. (Credit: Dia Mrad)
Discovered by L’Orient-Le Jour in the months following the Beirut tragedy, Dia Mrad’s work was initially closely tied to the Aug. 4, 2020 explosion. At the time, with his camera slung over his shoulder, the young architect roamed the old neighborhoods of the Lebanese capital on his scooter, photographing the devastation with an alert eye: buildings gutted by the blast at the port, their interiors torn open. These were the same buildings whose faded but still-preserved facades he had photographed just a few months earlier, among the last remnants of Beirut’s old architectural character — the Beirut of before the war, before the speculators, and before that tragic Aug. 4 …From this two-part photographic project, Dia Mrad created a series of before-and-after images showing the full extent of the damage inflicted on the architectural...
Discovered by L’Orient-Le Jour in the months following the Beirut tragedy, Dia Mrad’s work was initially closely tied to the Aug. 4, 2020 explosion. At the time, with his camera slung over his shoulder, the young architect roamed the old neighborhoods of the Lebanese capital on his scooter, photographing the devastation with an alert eye: buildings gutted by the blast at the port, their interiors torn open. These were the same buildings whose faded but still-preserved facades he had photographed just a few months earlier, among the last remnants of Beirut’s old architectural character — the Beirut of before the war, before the speculators, and before that tragic Aug. 4 …From this two-part photographic project, Dia Mrad created a series of before-and-after images showing the full extent of the damage inflicted on the...
