Marie-Noëlle Fattal is Lebanese and works in communication. After spending most of her life abroad, she returned to Lebanon in 2012 and started taking photographs during her Sunday walks. One day in 2015, she decided to share her pictures on an Instagram page that she named Beirut Footsteps. Her aim was to share emotions while safeguarding the visual memory of an ever-changing city. This is how her story with photography started. In 2017, she published Beirut Footsteps, a photography book inspired by her urban walks. In Ephémères, her first photo exhibition in December 2020, she showed the hidden beauty of Beirut’s everyday life. Since 2021, Marie-Noëlle takes part in the collective exhibition “Beirut Photo”. “Beirutis”, her second photography book, was released in 2023. Halfway between a personal diary and a photographic report, “Beirutis” captures the spirit of Beirut and its people through the tender gaze of its author.