Renowned photographer Camille Zakharia talked to us from Bahrain about his upcoming exhibit at Art Sawa in Dubai.
Camille Zakharia has photographed “the mundane” for as long as he can remember, but he is anything but. After fleeing Lebanon’s civil war in 1985, he has lived in the United States, Greece, Turkey, and Canada. But Bahrain is the place he now considers home, having lived there the past 12 years.
Typically he addresses issues related to sense of self, belonging and home, unsurprising for someone whose definition of home is necessarily fluid. But his recent exhibit called “Coastal Promenade,” which will be on show at Dubai’s Art Sawa beginning next week and was commissioned by Bahrain’s Ministry of Culture documents how Bahrain’s coastal culture and architecture has changed as a result of growth and land reclamation. While the country mourned its martyrs, Camille spoke gently about his role as documentarian of change.
