The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 6, 2024
Shooting practice at the Syrian Social Nationalist Party’s Lions Cubs training camp in Mount Lebanon
1989 (printed c. 2013–2014)
(Lebanese, b. 1964)
40 x 60 cm (15 3/4 x 23 5/8 in.)
© Samer Mohdad
Location: not on view
Description
Mohdad’s series about children living through the Lebanese civil war in the late 1980s and early 1990s carried deep personal meaning for him. Eight years old when civil war broke out in 1973, he recalled “bombs, exile, fighting, and the death of close friends and acquaintances.” He turned to photography “to express my fears and worries. It was a sort of therapy.”- {{cite web|title=Shooting practice at the Syrian Social Nationalist Party’s Lions Cubs training camp in Mount Lebanon|url=false|author=Samer Mohdad|year=1989 (printed c. 2013–2014)|access-date=06 May 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.122