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These images are from a series collectively titled Objects of study/The archive of studio Shehrazade/Hashem el Madani/Studio Practices. All of the photographs were taken by Lebanese commercial photographer Hashem el Madani and compiled by Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari. The images were taken in Zaatari’s hometown of Saida in Lebanon and most were taken in Madani’s studio. The sitters assume poses deliberately for the camera, sometimes accompanied by props or costumes, and most gaze directly towards the lens. Many of the pictures show subjects interacting in various ways, including embracing, kissing and wrestling.

The portraits were commissioned by the subjects and their families, who sometimes allowed Madani to select poses and settings, and sometimes chose these themselves. To assist in this process, Madani had a book containing images of people posing in different ways that his clients could select from, and he also provided them with props and costumes. Zaatari began to work with Madani’s archive in 1999 as part of a project run by the non-profit Arab Image Foundation that Zaatari co-founded in 1997, which works to collect and study photographs from the Arab world. Zaatari selected the pictures from the many thousands in Madani’s collection and had them all mounted and framed.

The title of the series makes reference to Madani and his studio and combines the phrases ‘objects of study’ and ‘studio practices’, emphasising the dual nature of these images. Zaatari has discussed the unusual authorship, noting that each image has ‘two authors’ and ‘two dates’ and suggesting that this shows that photographs take on different meanings when they are removed from their original context and ‘displaced ... into another time, another tradition, another economy’. This reflects Zaatari’s broader concern with the way that photography can become part of a social fabric, rather than just a set of isolated pictures: ‘I see this project and my involvement in it as an almost archaeological approach to the understanding of what the studio means, what the collection means in relation to the city.’
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