About
Tarek Haddad is a Lebanese photographer currently based in Arles. His work focuses primarily on the relationship between humans and their environment on both individual and collective scales, with a particular interest for the natural constructs which form the overlap between the two entities. His approach to photography finds its grounds in the balance between complementary opposites; the pragmatic and the poetic, the structured and the intuitive, the logical and the emotional. His work has been exhibited in Lebanon, Switzerland, and France.
In 2019, he formed a duo with Laetitia Hakim. Their joint practice is based on complementarity, duality, playfulness, and materiality. Their work stems from an ongoing conversation revolving around the actuality that marks them and the spaces they interact with and inhabit. It consists of stepping back, reflecting, and then responding to the events in question.
Grants/Awards
2020 - Prince Claus Relief Fund
2019 - Sustainable Mountain Art Residency (SMArt
Programme) Bellwald, Switzerland
three month residency + solo exhibition in Switzerland
2017 - Grant by the Arab Funds for Arts & Culture (AFAC) and mentorship through the Arab Documentary Photography Program Grant (ADPP) in partnership with Prince Claus Fund and Magnum Foundation
2016 - Selected for a workshop with Franco-Algerian artist Halida Boughriet
workshop + group exhibition during Beirut Art Fair 2016
2015 - Shortlisted for the Byblos Bank Award
Solo Exhibitions
June - September 2019 - The Sixth Day
Bellwald, Switzerland
July 2017 - Vesica Piscis
Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Raouche, Lebanon
Education
2022
Masters in Photography
Exchange with Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
2020 - ongoing
Masters in photography
Ecole Nationale Superieure de la Photographie, Arles, France
2014 - 2017
B.A. in Photography summa cum laude
Notre Dame University-Louaize, Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon
Group Exhibitions
March - April 2022 - Echoes from a crowded room
(the nothingness in between) - exhibition by Collectif 1200
Artlab, Beirut, Lebanon
Oct 2021 - Stillness in the fall (still life)
Fabrique POLA (Festivale International Des Arts de Bordeaux Metropole), Bordeaux, France
June - Aug 2021 - Togetherness
(a stretch of water - duo with Laetitia Hakim)
Galerie Tanit, Beirut, Lebanon
June - Sep 2021 - Glaciers Supremes (the sixth day)
Ernen, Ernen, Switzerland
Oct - Nov 2020 - Beirut 2020 (the Perpetuity of Ruins)
Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Raouche, Lebanon
Oct 2020 - Beirut Year Zero (Vesica Piscis)
ArtHaus Beirut, Lebanon
Oct - Nov 2020 - Metamorphosis (The Sixth Day)
World Nature Forum, Naters, Switzerland
June - Sep 2020 - Another Life (The Sixth Day)
Ernen, Switzerland
Feb - April 2019 - Group Exhibition (Vesica Piscis)
CUB Gallery, Badaro, Lebanon
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018 - Opening Exhibition (Neoplasticity)
CUB Gallery, Badaro, Lebanon
July - Aug 2017 - Oeuvres Recentes (Vesica Piscis)
Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Raouche, Lebanon
Sep 2016 - New World / Nouveau Monde (Neoplasticity)
Beirut Art Fair, Biel - Beirut, Lebanon
Sep 2015 - Raw Talents (Debatable Storage Syndrome)
Art Factum Gallery, Qarantina, Lebanon
for contact & inquiries:
trkhaddad@gmail.com
00 961 3 399 228
00 33 6 10 43 60 96