Porfolio Souraya JUREIDINI

WHAT REMAINS SOURAYA JUREIDINI

CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY

2024 2025

" Beneath

the turbulence, perseverance endures, and beyond the loss, the spirit remains."

Returning brings tension between the comfort and connection that only home can offer, and the lingering dissociation that, at times, makes this place feel incomprehensible.

Yet it is in this paradox that I slowly find my way back to what feels like home.

For many, being Lebanese means growing up knowing that leaving is inevitable—a truth I’ve come to know Lebanon reveals itself in the fragile balance between what is lost well. A decade abroad fractured my sense of self, leaving me caught and what endures. In its people— between worlds, uncertain of where open-handed and big-hearted—lives a quiet defiance that transcends the I belong. weight they carry.

This work documents my return, a journey through both the familiar The images bridge the personal and the abstract, inviting the viewer into and the foreign. In coming back, I honor my roots and pay tribute to Lebanon’s intricate essence—where beneath the turbulence, perseverLebanon’s indestructible spirit: from the order within chaos to its ance endures and beyond the loss, the spirit remains. roughness and tenderness.

Souraya Jureidini is a Lebanese The path was anything but linear. photographer based in Paris, France. Although she picked up a camera at Her photography is instinctive 14, it wasn’t until after earning — shot from the gut. a degree in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design in Through the lens, feelings take New York — and navigating detours shape, fueled by the curiosity to through publishing, fashion, and better grasp the human condition. consulting — that she accepted that Image-making becomes a way to graphic design wasn’t her calling. deconstruct the world and reveal its essence.

A humanitarian trip, driven by a need for introspection, eventually Her sensitivity, though sometimes led her back to photography. overwhelming, finds a place of acceptance and play in this creative process — a means of tuning into Every so often, it takes going far to parts of herself she once resisted. come close.

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