L’exploration par Mazen Jannoun de la côte libanaise est un voyage de découvertes de ce qui est, de ce qui aurait pu être et de ce qui aurait dû être. C’est un périple sentimental brièvement interrompu par l’assaut israélien en 2006 mais aussi une expédition vers l’inconnu. Ce livre montre du doigt ce qui est séduisant et ce qui est répugnant, ce qui inspire et ce qui est banal. Du Nord au Sud, Mazen a rencontré la beauté et la dévastation, un engagement certain pour la conservation des plages et une indécente négligence.
Text in English and French by Maureen Ali (find book here)
published by Editions Tamyras / ISBN-13: 978-2360860210.
Girls of a Bedouin community living on the far northern coastal stretch called Al-Arida / 2016 © Mazen Jannoun
Children of the same clan. / 2016 © Mazen Jannoun
2016 © Mazen Jannoun
2016 © Mazen Jannoun
A fisherman recapturing his cage traps on a beach a few km south of Tyr / 2016 © Mazen Jannoun
A view from a restaurant near the ancient port city of Batroun / 2016 © Mazen Jannoun
Batroun. / 2016 © Mazen Jannoun
A dead crab on the outskirts of the capital Beirut. The beach stretches around the capital were once called the Golden Sands. Nowadays they are heavily polluted places no one wants to hear about. / 2016 © Mazen Jannoun
An abandoned port in Jdeideh. In the distance is the capital Beirut. / 2016 © Mazen Jannoun
2016 © Mazen Jannoun
Oil residue accumulated on the beach in Tyr. / 2016 © Mazen Jannoun
Tyr, south of Lebanon. The beach is the playground for the city's young. / 2016 © Mazen Jannoun
The spectacular beach in Tyr, south of Lebanon. A nesting place for sea turtles. / 2016 © Mazen Jannoun
Cofee shops are a good business on the southern beaches / 2016 © Mazen Jannoun
A mumified shark caught in 2004. On display at the local marine life museum in the north. / 2016 © Mazen Jannoun
The manager of the marine life museum in Tyr. / 2016 © Mazen Jannoun
Children passing time in the hot summer temperatures. / 2016 © Mazen Jannoun
2016 © Mazen Jannoun
2016 © Mazen Jannoun
2016 © Mazen Jannoun
2016 © Mazen Jannoun
A fisherman contemplating the heavy polution from the sewage and the nearby garbage dump which has greatly reduced the
marine life and the fishing business / 2016 © Mazen Jannoun
2009 © Mazen Jannoun
a winter evening in the beautiful town of Fidar, north. / 2010 © Mazen Jannoun
Samya chasing her fantasies along the ancient Phoenician wall in Batroun, north. / 2011 © Mazen Jannoun
2010 © Mazen Jannoun
Maina and cathedral. North / 2012 © Mazen Jannoun
A man and his dream to ban illegal coastal constructions and abusive corruption. Amsheet, north. / 2009 © Mazen Jannoun
2011 © Mazen Jannoun
2011 © Mazen Jannoun
memories. / 2012 © Mazen Jannoun
Oriental night life. Dancing in a restaurant bar. South / 2012 © Mazen Jannoun
The coastal natural reserve of Mansouri, far south. One of the most pristine pieces left. / 2012 © Mazen Jannoun
Mansouri, north. / 2011 © Mazen Jannoun
Sea turtle egg couting. A routine which marine biologist Mona Al Khalil and her assistant does every day. / 2011 © Mazen Jannoun
2011 © Mazen Jannoun
Goats in the Orange House B&B on the. South coast / 2011 © Mazen Jannoun
2011 © Mazen Jannoun
2011 © Mazen Jannoun
Garbage dump on the beach of Saida, south / 2011 © Mazen Jannoun
The Beirut skyline visible on the horizon with the artificial garbage hill silhouette in between / 2011 © Mazen Jannoun
in Kfar-Abida. A beautiful and clean part of the north / 2011 © Mazen Jannoun
a Beiruty boy on the sandy beach in Ramlet Al Bayda. / 2009 © Mazen Jannoun
local volunteers closing a sewage release accumulation with sands. Ramlet Al Bayda. / 2009 © Mazen Jannoun
Beirut. / 2009 © Mazen Jannoun
The city of Tripoli in the north. / 2009 © Mazen Jannoun
2009 © Mazen Jannoun
2009 © Mazen Jannoun
Abusive dumping in the far north. / 2009 © Mazen Jannoun
Surfers' paradise. Batroun, North / 2009 © Mazen Jannoun
A lawyer and marine conservation activist in his house by the coast of Amsheet, north. / 2009 © Mazen Jannoun
