Portrait of War

Yan Morvan’s poignant exhibition Liban – La ligne verte / Lebanon, the green line opens at the Folia Gallery in Paris on 19 March 2019. The reception starts at 18.30 and will be attended by the artist.

Leica photographer Yan Morvan counts among the most influential photojournalists of our time. In the period from 1982 to 1985, the French photographer and member of the Sipa Press Agency covered the war in Lebanon for the US-magazine Newsweek – documenting the conflicts between the Israeli army and its allied armed forces on one side, and the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Syrian troops on the other.

In his images, Morvan never takes sides, but simply shows the war as he experienced it. This exhibition presents a selection of 12 photographs: powerful, intimate portraits of civilians, families and soldiers, captured with a large-format view camera. During the war, Beirut was divided by the ‘green line’ – a clear demarcation dividing the East of the city from the West, and the Christian population from the Muslim one. Anyone who ventured there would find themselves the target of snipers from both sides. As a result, the 15-kilometre-long stretch remained largely deserted – allowing shrubs and trees to grow undisturbed, creating a green belt of violence and death.

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