Artist Portrait, Rawi Hage
Rawi Hage
Montreal, Quebec, 1999
Camille Zakharia
Iris digital prints
Collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization

At our request, the photo- graphers Camille Zakharia and Rawi Hage met with the exhibition's participating artists in their home provinces in order to make portraits of them with particular attention given to their surroundings.

Artist Portrait, Camille Zakharia
Camille Zakharia (detail)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2000
Camille Zakharia
Iris digital prints
Collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Karim Rholem created a self-portrait. It should be noted that all three photographers are among the exhibiting artists.

Artist Portrait, Karim Rholem
Karim Rholem
St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, 2001
Self-portrait
Digital inkjet print
Collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization
  All the artists generously agreed to share facets of themselves and their daily lives - lives which are eloquently revealed by the eye of the photographer.

Adel Alnaser
Hannah Alpha
Mirella Aprahamian
Yasser Badreddine
Laila Binbrek
Marc Eliany
Rawi Hage
Jamelie Hassan
Liliane Karnouk
Farouk Kaspaules
Ali Kichou
B. Lutfie Sorge
Nihal Mazloum
Joseph Moukhtar
Hadjira Preure
Aldin Rashid
Karim Rholem
Ishrak Sahar
Jayce Salloum
Taouffik Semmad
Shwan
Sanaa M. Wassef
Camille Zakharia
Nicolas Zeitouni
Sami Zubi