Young Collectors Auction - exhibit-E

NassouhZAGHLOULEH1958Lot 022'Voies' Signed, Dated, Numerated110 X 167 cm. Archival Print on Cotton Paper (1/7) 2001Estimate (US$ 5,000 - 7,000)Born in Damascus, Syria in 1958, Nassouh Zaghlouleh is an accomplished photographerwhose expansive body of work has been built over several decades. Developing a lovefor the medium at an early age, he went on to refine his craft in France and received agraduate degree in Photographic Communication from L’école Nationale Supérieure desArts Décoratifs in Paris in 1990. In 2003, he began teaching at the city’s InternationalInstitute for Image and Sound.Since launching his professional career, Zaghlouleh has assisted with the filming of 20documentary films and has taken over 80,000 photographs, yet his images were notshown to the public until 2007, when he had a solo exhibition at Ayyam Gallery Damascusthat was accompanied by a monograph on his work. Featuring over two dozen of hisphotographs, the exhibition “From Paris to Damascus,” marked an important milestonein his career. Since then he has received substantial exposure through a number of eventsincluding the Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Dialogues with the East, which was organizedin conjunction with the Mas Iglesias Image Centre in Spain and a number of group showsof Arab art with Ayyam Gallery.His striking images of Damascus, in which he exhibits seasoned variations on light andcomposition, capture the essence of the city, one defined in the artist’s eyes by its oldalleyways. Their barren structures, dark passages and looming shadows cast the perfectlight for his explorations. His images are of a solitary existence, of the quiet that fallsover the arteries of the city as its inhabitants go about their daily lives, merely passingbetween these walls as they make their way to their destinations. For Zaghlouleh it is thisoften overlooked side of Damascus and its complex system of channels that give life to themetropolis.