Art and culture
In pictures – Philip Aractingi remembers April 13 with his own snapshots
Lebanese director Philippe Aractingi posted on his personal page commenting on the anniversary of the Lebanese war, saying: “April 13, 1975 marks the beginning of the civil war in Lebanon.
This date comes back to haunt our hearts every year. The day everything changed I was ten years old and in the eyes of a child, the fire of precocious maturity began to take shape. I have attached pictures that I took in the 1980s, of the art of placing containers and sandbags in front of shops and streets to protect against shells and snipers… It is noteworthy that Philippe Aractingi is a Lebanese-French director and writer, who took pictures of Beirut daily during the war and produced his first documentary when he was 21 years old.
