On Photography People and Modern Times

On Photography People and Modern Times is a twochannel video installation that tracks photographic records that Akram Zaatari researched and collected for the Arab Image Foundation between 1998 and 2000 It is a meditation on the two lives of photographs once in the hands of the people who cherished them and then in an environment that secures their preservation Cutting across temporal and geographic borders the film probes the nature of humans relationships with photographs and highlights the limits of standard preservation