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Shiny People
Hala Dabaji
LebanonGALLERYCONVERSATION
I also wanted to include a mystical aspect to this portrait that would justify the flashlight that illuminates his face , as if his...
The writings next and above the image suggest that the picture fits in a page of a newspaper.
During Israel’s military campaign in- Lebanon it was said that Hezbollah’s military actions were “invisible”, “unreadable”, “inaccessible.”

It has led me to make a portrait of a Hezbollah’s activist according to these same adjectives: A resistant “resisting” in revealing himself to Israel, to the camera.
I also wanted to include a mystical aspect to this portrait that would justify the flashlight that illuminates his face , as if his remoteness made him more beautiful and “shiny”, like a fascinating movie star as suggested in the title and in the picture that looks more or less like a paparazzi shot.

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