From July 3, 2024 to July 6, 2024
Galerie Tanit, Mar Mikhael, Beirut, Lebanon
LES INDISCIPLINÉS is a body of work made at night, inside spaces where control loosens and people momentarily stop performing who they are expected to be.
The photographs are not taken from a distance. They are produced from within the scene, among friends and strangers, bodies in motion, moments of excess, tenderness, boredom, desire, and collapse. The camera is present, acknowledged, and negotiated. What unfolds is shaped by proximity rather than direction, by shared presence rather than staging.
Set in Beirut, the work turns away from polished nightlife imagery and commercial spectacle to focus on the margins: private apartments, after-hours bars, transient encounters, and the fragile intimacy that surfaces when the city lowers its guard. In a place where public behavior is closely monitored, the night functions as a temporary truce, a narrow window in which bodies test visibility, closeness, and restraint before daylight reasserts control.
The human body appears not as an ideal, but as a site of tension. It is exposed, playful, vulnerable, sometimes reckless. Pleasure is never neutral here; it carries risk, urgency, and contradiction. To be seen, to touch, to desire, to let go, these gestures register as provisional acts, shaped by context and consequence.
LES INDISCIPLINÉS does not aim to define Beirut’s nightlife or to document it exhaustively. It gathers fragments instead, unstable moments made possible by trust, proximity, and the conditions of the night itself. Freedom, when it appears, is brief and unresolved, felt most intensely because it is never guaranteed.
Anthony Saroufim
Anthony Saroufim (b.1990) is a Lebanese photographer based in Beirut, Lebanon. He graduated from the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris in 2015 with a masters degree in Architecture. His artistic journey holds a profound commitment to preserving memories, identities, and stories through the captivating fusion of architecture and photography. Saroufim explores the traditional charm of analog photography in an increasingly digital era. In his ongoing project “Les Indisciplinés,” (2019-present) Saroufim immerses himself in the nocturnal wilderness, boldly unveiling the essence of the night and documenting unfiltered scenes from Beirut’s underground nightlife. “Les Indisciplinés” aims to empower the human body and spirit, celebrating spontaneous moments and the unapologetic beauty of the night. It transcends mere documentation, offering an immersive experience that challenges perceptions and revels in nocturnal energy.
Artists
LES INDISCIPLINÉS
Image Gallery
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BATHTUB 01
2024
INKJET PRINT ON MATT FIBRE PAPER
30 cm x 20 cm
4 of 10
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GRUNGE
2024
INKJET PRINT ON MATT FIBRE PAPER
30 cm x 20 cm
1 of 10
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IMPRESSIONS
2024
INKJET PRINT ON MATT FIBRE PAPER
30 cm x 20 cm
1 of 10
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KINTSUGI
2024
INKJET PRINT ON MATT FIBRE PAPER
30 cm x 20 cm
1 of 10
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WET
2018
INKJET PRINT ON MATT FIBRE PAPER
30 cm x 20 cm
6 of 10
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MADE OF STONE
2024
INKJET PRINT ON MATT FIBRE PAPER
30 cm x 20 cm
1 of 10
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INTROSPECTION
2023
INKJET PRINT ON MATT FIBRE PAPER
30 cm x 20 cm
2 of 10
LES INDISCIPLINÉS
PASTEL
2024
INKJET PRINT ON MATT FIBRE PAPER
30 cm x 20 cm
1 of 10
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