For Serge Najjar, the city is not a backdrop — it’s a living geometry of light and form.
Born in 1973 in Beirut and trained in law in Paris, Najjar came to photography through discipline rather than chance. A self-taught artist, he applies the rigor of legal reasoning to visual composition, reducing chaos into balance and rhythm. In his images, the modern metropolis becomes a stage where architecture and the human figure meet in brief, deliberate alignments — moments that feel choreographed yet entirely real.
Najjar’s photographs are minimal, precise, and quietly charged. Concrete facades dissolve into planes of shadow; a passer-by enters the frame like a punctuation mark. Every shot carries a sense of stillness that borders on meditation. “I try to find the instant when structure and life touch,” he says — that fragile convergence when the built world and human presence share the same breath.
Exhibited internationally at Paris Photo, Photo London, Art Paris, and in solo shows from Beirut to Munich and Chicago, Najjar’s work transcends documentation. Each image distills the city into its essential elements — line, contrast, silence — inviting the viewer to pause, to observe, to see anew.
Through his lens, architecture becomes abstraction, and daily life turns poetic. The result is a visual language that speaks quietly but with authority, proving that simplicity can reveal depth and that order can hold emotion.
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The Dreamer
Traces
New Beginnings
Shadow Splits
Black Echoes
Peeping Through
Presence
Mixed Feelings
Signs
