Jack Dabaghian was born in Beirut in 1961. Impassioned by ‘the image’ and photographic practices, by turns a major reporter, picture editor, Reuters Middle East Chief Photographer and fashion photographer, he has dedicated himself to journalism and the image for 38 years now.
Dabaghian has covered many conflicts: in Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Rwanda, Zaire and Algeria, and his images have been published in Newsweek, Time Magazine, Paris Match, The Economist, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times to name but a few.
A desire to examine contemporary photographic practices and their artistic and conceptual tenor, has led him to engage since 2012 in a radically different approach, to which he is now wholly committed.

His approach draws on the history of photographic technics to expound a powerfully evocative and oneiric opus, where photographic experimentation, old and alternative processes play a central role. Somewhere between reality and illusion, his images question the mechanisms of representation and, through them, humankind’s relationship with imagination, with the tangible world and its fragilities. Time, photosensitive matter, human and non-human living beings and the beauty and force of the elements cut across this new body of work with ambition and sensitivity.