From July 16, 2025 to September 3, 2025

Galerie Tanit, Mar Mikhael, Beirut, Lebanon

Joumana Jamhouri, Nordeste 07, 2013, Inkjet Print on Oyster Permajet Paper, 80 cm x 120 cm, Edition 4 + 2 AP

 

This exhibition is a photographic journey guided by water.

From the Mediterranean to the coasts of Brazil, water draws an invisible line between territories, histories, and imaginations.It connects shores, shapes cities, reflects skies, and holds deep memories within. A witness to time, it is a source of life, movement, and power; but also of refuge, contemplation, and consolation.

It separates and unites.

Whether skirting a megacity, caressing a deserted beach, or seeping into a fragment of architecture, water transforms both gaze and perception. It reveals the tension between nature and urbanity, between permanence and flow.

At times a mirror, at times an abyss, it becomes a language — silent, yet alive.

This visual journey explores our relationship to water: a universal matter, a liquid memory, a shifting frontier, a trace of humanity.

 

Joumana Jamhouri

Joumana Jamhouri is a Lebanese photographer. She graduated from the New York Institute of Photography (NYIP) and specializes in industrial and architectural, as well as landscape and portrait photography. She currently lives in Lebanon and travels extensively.

Her clients include, among others, Sidem, the Matelec Group (Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, and France), the National Cement Company, Pikasso, the Delmoon Group, Pepsi, Almaza, the René Moawad Foundation, and several other NGOs.

She also taught photography for many years at the “Université pour tous” at Saint Joseph University.

Her work has been published in several magazines and presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Lebanon, Abu Dhabi, Mexico, Washington, Munich, São Paulo, Paris, and at the prestigious MoMA in New York. In August 2014, she held her largest solo exhibition to date at the renowned Beirut Exhibition Center in Lebanon. In May 2019, she presented a solo exhibition titled Le Chemin du Retour at Galerie Tanit in Beirut. She also exhibited at Paris Photo in 2023 and 2024 with Galerie Tanit.

She has illustrated various books such as Tripoli by Nina Jidejian and The Hill of Swallows by Help Lebanon and contributed to Independence 05, The Beirut Spring by Quantum and Dar An-Nahar. She was commissioned to be the photographer for the 2010 annual report of Crédit Agricole Suisse and for the Baalbeck Festival program in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. Her first monograph, Lebanon and the Sea, was published in December 2008.