Murr Tower, built in 1973 (Murr Tower, construite en 1973)

Lebanese photographer and videomaker Ziad Antar explores the social, urban and economic realities of the Middle East. For the series Expired he used black-and-white film decades beyond its 1976 expiry date and a Kodak Reflex dating from 1948. The stain-like marks and the blurring of contours testify to his interest in the genesis of the photographic image. Evoking old photographs, these pictures record the breakneck modernisation of Lebanon, a country symbolised by both the never completed Murr Tower, used as a rocket-firing position during the civil war, and the portrait of Druze political leader Walid Jumblat.