Habib Saleh is a visual artist from Lebanon working across photography, short film, and writing. His practice moves between fashion and portrait photography, documentary image-making, and more personal forms of visual storytelling. Often guided by natural light, familiar places, and the quiet presence of those around him, his work is rooted in close observation and in the fragile details of everyday life.
Shaped by the instability of living in Lebanon, Saleh's images return often to questions of place, memory, survival, and the strange coexistence of beauty and devastation. His photographs do not try to separate the personal from the political, or the intimate from the surrounding chaos, but instead remain attentive to the way these realities live beside one another. Through his work, he looks for the moments that continue to exist quietly within uncertainty, the gestures, faces, and atmospheres that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
Writing is an extension of this practice. Fragments of philosophical and existential thought often move alongside his images, not as explanation, but as another way of approaching what cannot fully be held. Across photography, film, and text, his work seeks to give space to what slips away, to what remains unresolved, and to what feels deeply human.