Lucien Samaha

Lucien Samaha is a Lebanese-American photographer and artist based in New York City.

Life and career

Samaha was born in Beirut and migrated to the US in 1970. He attended Annandale High School and Rochester Institute of Technology. He was a flight attendant with Trans World Airlines from 1978 to 1986. In 1990, he was the recipient of the first Eastman Kodak Company Professional Photography Division Scholarship ever given to a photographer and later joined the Eastman Kodak Company. He was one of the original members of the Arab Image Foundation.

2008: Uneasy About Beirut, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York, USA
2013: The Flight Attendant Years: 1978-1986, Lombard Freid Projects, New York, USA
2016: The Actor's Shadow, Sibiu City Hall, Romania
2016: The Solitude of Modern Man as Portrayed in Contemporary Cinema, Transilvania International Film Festival, Romania
2019: A History of Digital Photography, Pioneer Works, New York, USA
Group exhibitions
2008: Good is What Pleases, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2006: Persona-Personae, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York, USA
2006: I Want To Show You Somewhere, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Oregon, USA
2007: The Searchers, EFA Gallery, New York, USA
2018: Beirút, Beyrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway