Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1958, Lucien Samaha has been photographing his life and adventures since he took one of the first photography courses ever offered in a High School in the US in 1975. Photography has been Samaha’s companion throughout his many careers, including that of an International Flight Attendant for TWA, a Marketing Manager for Eastman Kodak Company, (where he had the distinction of being the first digital photographer ever), and a world famous DJ on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center.
He considers himself a ‘post-conceptualist’ artist, a term of his own definition, where he relishes the adventure of photographing and gathering materials and data from the real world and then finds inspiration of making sense of them in a finished photo book or art project. In addition to his own classic photography, Lucien also creates artworks in video format, and two dimensional visual art derived from other photography, videos, publications, and found objects.
Lucien is constantly researching, consolidating and annotating his archive of over 2 million photographs, video clips, and other digital assets to serve a variety of projects, now and in the future. He was the first recipient of a Kodak scholarship to a photographer. He has shown at the Museum for Modern Art in Frankfurt Germany and at the Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland Oregon, and was a Nam Jun Paik Award Finalist in 2004 in Dortmund, Germany.
