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In May 2025, I was granted official access to Beirut's Dahiyeh district through local journalistic networks and formal authorization channels.
Months after the ceasefire, Israeli airstrikes continued to strike areas of southern Beirut, leaving behind shattered buildings, displaced families, and neighborhoods suspended between destruction and routine life.
What drew me there was not the battlefield itself, but the people living in its aftermath.
A young girl sat on the back of her father's motorbike, gazing upward at the ruins of a building brought down by an airstrike. Men gathered quietly inside a small shop that few customers visited anymore, surrounded by streets and structures scarred by war. Elsewhere, residents walked past collapsed apartment blocks and piles of debris that had become part of the landscape of daily life.
These photographs are not primarily about military conflict or political factions. They are about memory, loss, endurance, and the quiet persistence of ordinary people after the world's attention has moved on.
The Dahiyeh project forms only one chapter of a larger reporting journey across Lebanon. Alongside the photographs, I am currently writing a long-form narrative feature based on months of field reporting, interviews, and firsthand observations throughout the country. From survivors of the Beirut port explosion to families living through economic collapse and recurring conflict, the work explores how individuals navigate uncertainty while holding onto dignity, hope, and a sense of home.
My practice sits at the intersection of journalism and documentary photography, focusing on human stories in places often reduced to headlines.
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Primary effect: Bring your own effect: "Echo" 🌊
invideo Editor timeline:https://invideo.io/share/ECHO-editable-timeline-n92j4troIbx
Process note:
🌑 Echo is a black screen where every sound sends a wave of light through the scene in real depth.
🎞️ Starting footage: one licensed stock clip of a temple corridor from invideo's stock library. The sound is original, synthesised for this piece. The voiceover is my own.
💬 What I asked for: a black screen where each ping lights the scene by distance, built from a depth map, with controls for each wave, afterglow, wave thickness, contour lines, outlines, colour and a final reveal.
🛠️ What was built: a depth map (Depth Anything Video), two "Echo" custom effects on the depth map (a Multiply layer for light and an Add layer for glow), an "Echo colour" effect on the footage, and keyframes for six waves and the reveal. The first build was done by Claude, connected to invideo Editor through invideo's MCP server.
🎚️ Refinement: I asked invideo's own agent (Agent Two Lite) in the editor to raise Afterglow from 0.14 to 0.3 on both Echo effects. It made the change on the timeline, and that conversation is shown in the video. I also tried a longer afterglow and a gold colour, both shown.
✅ All building and the final cut were done in invideo Editor.
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My role. Landscape Photographer & Photo Editor
Project description.
A landscape photography project created to promote tourism in an underdeveloped rural region in China, undertaken during a community support initiative in August.
I independently managed the entire process, from location scouting and landscape photography to color grading and final image editing. Through careful composition, natural light, atmospheric depth, and balanced tonal contrast, I aimed to capture the region’s landscape and communicate its visual appeal for tourism promotion.🙌 😊
