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Edouard Temrian: I prepared a photographic ambush for Churchill in Beirut

Edward Albert Cherian (52 years old), one of the first Lebanese photographers. Some consider him one of the elders of photojournalism in Lebanon, who has tasted both the sweetness and the bitterness of photojournalism

He picked up a camera for the first time in 1947, and his favorite hobby was leaving school to work in Lyon Studio. At the age of sixteen, he learned roles from photography and specialized in photographing children’s faces in Bab Idris studios, especially in Coco Studio, Gulianek Studio, Ararat Studio, Mini-Photo Studio, and in 1958 Edward Treman left the photography work in the studios and moved to the photojournalism work in the newspapers Al-Oryan and Al-Jarida... and remained in them until the merger of Al-Orian with Al-Lojour. He is still working in the aforementioned agency for 30 years now in the field of photographic work - speech and pictures. Pictures, words and roles. Somewhat similar. The most important thing is that you kind of fan the cameras with us, disobeying and hastening. In which field do you specialize in visualization?

Action I specialize in shooting footage. I photograph moving events, i.e. filming shots that need quick wit, art and ability. Of course, this does not mean that I do not like photographing static events. And the other is all snapshots, but all marginal things are important to each event I recall, for example, that the late British Prime Minister Mr. Winston Churchill Boom visited Lebanon in 1961 on his private yacht. On that day, photography was forbidden, except for you. I crept into the port and took my food with me. I kept ambush for him for two days, and the moment he left his fortune to the Marfa Gate, I took a picture of him, and the security men attacked. After a violent argument, I reached an agreement with some of the people who cleared the photo before publishing it, and so it was.


One of the important events that I photographed - on the night of November 21, 1959, a civilian plane crashed in the heights of Aramoun, and all its passengers died, and only one passenger survived at night. I climbed to the heights, and while I was filming the professional plane, I crashed on a bumpy hill, so my cameras broke, and I was carrying two cameras on that day. I quickly returned to - Al-Jarida I brought a third camera and went back to the scene of the accident and the event before the bodies of the dead were removed and the fire ended The plane fell again, and the third camera was broken and hit my back, and the injury kept me for more than 10 days in the hospital. I also filmed the visit of Shad Iran to Lebanon, the visit of US President Lyndon Johnson and King Hussein in the car race in Lebanon, and the visit of Pope Paul VI to Lebanon in 1965 and President Muammar Gaddafi. And the President Al-Hasab Murcia, kings and presidents

My cameras were present at Arab and international conferences and in campaigns to elect Miss World queens, and they were in clips of some international actors, especially the American actor Mickey Rooney, may God have mercy on him. I was the only Lebanese photographer at the July 14 celebration in Paris and I photographed General de Gaulle. Which one do you prefer, a black and white photo or a color photo? Done - the black and white photo cannot be seen in color. The color photo does not appeal to me in our present days. In my opinion, black and white photography carries more art than color photography does, because the artistic ability and play with light and shadow and control the reflection of light All of them are at the disposal of the photographer. They have more freedom with black and white than with colors. With a picture in color, you can move easily. I prefer black and white photography because you can light up with it. The black and white picture is a touchstone from the photographer. Have you won local or international awards? ● Photography - I did not participate in a contest where Circumstances did not allow that, and did I participate in exhibitions? They stole my archive during the war in Lebanon, and my continuous work steals all my time and does not allow me to to participate in such exhibitions What I love and encourage is 36 years of photography, what is your suffering?

Forum what Ntmma photographers. If the state does not provide guarantees to the photographer in Al-Sahar, and if his situation remains as it is, then I do not wish anyone to initiate this profession because it is, in fact, a tiring and dangerous profession for those responsible for the media in Lebtar.

Imagine that the photographer enters his old age alone, and he does not have what enables him to complete his life after long trouble and misery, and after a life in which his dialogue, , mixed with the sweet and the bitter together, and all of them are problems and troubles

photographer Nabil Ismail