YASMINA EL CHAMI

This series was developed over a number of years of visiting the abandoned Rayak train station.

In all of my work I am interested in repetition as a means of ordering and classification; ruins, like landscapes, defy these attempts.

I first stumbled onto this magical site in 2008, with my classmates at AUB. But I only systematically started photographing it in 2015, a turning point in many ways.

If there ever was a perfect ruin, this site would be it.

Luckily, there is no such thing as a perfect photograph.

The ruin, the present, our subjectivities, are always changing.