Field of Remembrance
 
Field of Remembrance is a series of photographs selected from images taken by Camille Zakharia during his intermittent visits to Lebanon between 2001 and 2016. Zakharia left his native country ten years into the Lebanese civil war in 1985 after graduating from the American University of Beirut. In Field of Remembrance, the images both recall the illusion of a Lebanon that existed before a decade and a half of violence and devastation and dispel the nostalgia for a world that no longer exists. 
The book is an investigation of symbols, architecture, and ruins, a deeply personal investigation of the post-war landscape of Lebanon and the possibility of its recovery.
 
 
About the Author
 
Camille Zakharia graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University Halifax Canada in 1997 and a Bachelor of Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 1985.
 
Camille Zakharia’s work has been shown at the Venice Art and Architecture Biennales in 2010 and 2013, winning the Gold Lion with Bahrain in 2010.. He also exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Canadian Museum of Civilization, FotoFest 2014, Musee du Quai Branly, Albert Kahn Museum, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Florida National Museum, Wichita Center for the Arts, Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, Chobi Mela, Sharjah Biennale, Ithra Cultural Center and National Museum of Bahrain.
 
Zakharia's works are part of the public collections at LACMA, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Victoria and Albert Museum, Musee Suisse de l’Appareil Photographique, Clarinda Carnegie Museum, Wichita Center for the Arts, National Museum of Bahrain, Barjeel Art Foundation, Jameel Foundation, Dubai International Financial Center, Sh. Ebrahim Bin Mohamed Al Khalifa Center of Culture & Research, and Art Gallery at Saint Mary’s University.