Cedric Bardawil’s photo essay Six Days at the Sporting Club documents Beirut’s Sporting Club, a social hotspot that has remained largely unchanged since it opened in 1953. The clientele is unique in its diversity: sunbathing students mingle with pensioners who come to play cards by the water each day. Bardawil documented the minimal architecture and its inhabitants over the course of six days.
This visual article charts the processes of making behind the final photo essay, including Bardawil’s notes and images from the printers, where he worked at length with John McCarthy of Labyrinth to replicate the distinctive colours he recalled seeing at the Sporting Club.
Listen to Cedric discussing his background and the process behind Six Days at the Sporting Club.